INVASION PROBLEMS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1903, 24 April 1913, Page 6

INVASION PROBLEMS.

MANY VIEWS. ! i SHIPS OR CONSCRIPTS? London, April 22. The discussion on the army annual bill in the Lords is attracting considerable attention, especially Lord Haldane s remark that the Dominions may yet do more than defend themselves ; also the suggestion that both political parties might take counsel together. The Pall Mall Gazette supports tho latter proposal. - The Westminster Gazette states that if the territorials fall below strength the Government will not adopt compnlsion, but will increase the second line of naval defence or retain the professional army till the sea frontiers are secure. The Daily Mail declares that 'ast year's manoeuvres showed that the fleet representing Germany would be able to laud an army of 28,000 on the Yorkshire coast. SIR WILLIAM HALL-JONES. AN INTERVIEW. Fremantle, April 23. Sir William Hail-Jones, interviewed, said it was good news to hear that Australia will lay down another Dreadnought. With New Zealand and Australia doing their share in Imperial defence, with Canada and South Africa coming into line, the possibility of India doing her share, if Britain adopts some system of universal training, the Empire would be practically inviolable. "We should prove ourselves irresistible in attack and iuvuluerable in defence," added Sir William, who is emphatic that compulsory training in Britain must come. The only question is whether Britain will wait till trouble comes, or insist on having it before it is too late.