FUTURE DEFENCE
RESTS WITH BRITISH NAVY POSITION' OF PACIFIC DOMINIONS AMERICA IF NOT BRITAIN? Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rout"’-’- Telegram. LONDON, March 12. In tho House of Commons during the debate of the Navy Estimates, Mr C. G. Ammon (Lab.) asked for information in regard to the development of the Indian Navy and fortifications in India. He declared that the Government’s Singapore policy was calculated to lead to war in the Far East and aroused the suspicions of Japan and China. Commander Carlyon Bellairs (C.) urged that the question of future defence should he submitted to the Imperial Conference. He declared that Australia and Now Zealand might as well throw the money they had spent on defence into the sea, if they could not be assured the support of the great British Fleet in the event of war with Japan. Their ships 'would' simply be the prey of the Japanese Navy without tho British Fleet, and, ft they could not relv on the support of the British Navy their eyes would turn to America.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12395, 15 March 1926, Page 8
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