NAVAL DEFENCE
POLICY IN THE PACIFIC. THE COMMONS DEBATE. (Fresa AMoclation —By IV'grapb —Copyright! LONDON, March 12. During the debate in the House of Commons on the Navy Estimates Mr C. G. Ammon (Lab.), asked for information in regard to the development of Indian navy fortification in India. He declared that the Government’s Singapore policy was calculated to lead to war in the Far East, as it had aroused the suspicions of Japan and China. Mr C. Bellairs (Con.) urged that the question of future defence should be submitted to the Imperial Conference. He declared that Australia and New Zealand might as well throw the money thev spent on defence into the sea if thev could not be assured of the support of the great British fleet in the event of war with Japan. Their ships would simply be a prey for the Japanese Navy without the British fleet, and if they could not relv on the support cf the British Navy their eyes would turn to America. —Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19738, 15 March 1926, Page 7
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169NAVAL DEFENCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 19738, 15 March 1926, Page 7
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