AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE
INADEQUACY stressed
PUBLIC MEETING IN SYDNEY.
SYDNEY, September 20. (Received Sept, 21, at 0.30 a.m.) There has been considerable discussion in the Australian press lately with regard to the inadequacy of the Australian defences, Mr W, M. Hughes has been a prominent figure in the agitation to awaken interest in the danger of aggression. A public meeting in Sydney, convened by the Lord Mayor, to-day decided to form a citizens’ national defence committee, which will be entirely non-political. Mr Hughes, the chief speaker, declared that the world was seething with unrest, and Australia could not continue to go without arms in a world that was without liberty. Never was there such a country as Australia so inviting and so vulnerable. The meeting passed a resolution in favour of rehabilitation of Australian defences on a sound and practical basis and “ that a sustained effort be made to bring the voluntary training system up to the full strength desired by the military authorities.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22064, 21 September 1933, Page 9
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