STATE OF EUROPE
MR LYONS’S WARNING.
EFFECT ON AUSTRALIA.
BIG DEFENCES ESSENTIAL
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
Received January 2G, 12.50 p.m
MELBOURNE, Jan. 2G
After a meeting of the National Defence Council, the Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons) warned Australia of the danger of war. “Since the end of last year the international situation has not improved- Events in Europe and the East have moved in a direction which may precipitate a world conflict with tragic suddenness,"'’ he said.
“What Australia must realise quickly is that these events vitally affect our country,” said the Prime Minister. “In the last few years, even in the last few months, there have been vast changes in the world situation. These changes mean that the peace which Australia has enjoyed for 150 years is threatened.” Mr Lyons emphasised that effective defences in Australia would help to avert a world conflict.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 49, 26 January 1939, Page 9
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