THE GRAND FLEET.
VISITED BY MR HUGHES,
.HIS WARM PRAISE.
LONDON, May 1,
The Australian Prime Minister (Mr W. M. Hughes) was deeply impressed by his visit to the Fleet. When interviewed he said: "I have seen the mightiest instrument of power ever fashioned by man. Stretching away to the far horizon its numbers are seemingly endless. I have seen the invulnerable Navy, behind whose ample cover the Empire has rested isince the outbreak, and still rests in perfect security. I have spoken to the men into whose hands the Empire las entrusted the care of this embodiment of its power. This bulwark is its safety. lam content and satisfied that these are the men who will not fail us. They realise that upon them rests the safety, not only of Great Britain and the Empire, but civilisation.
"They are quietly confident because the pulses of youth leap in their veins. In them is the moral force springing from the most glorious traditions. In them lives the spirit which led Drake and Nelson to victory. We may bend every energy to the prosecution of the war with the certain assurance that Great Britain's command of the seas is safe in their hands."
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Northern Advocate, 3 May 1916, Page 3
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