AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCES. LONDON, June 13.
The Morning Post, commenting on Mr Deakm's interview, says that it -would be better lor the Commornvealth to have its ovrn navy if it is the only means of producing a school of seamen able to grasp the problem of naval strategy. The paper advises the Commonwealth, without being suspected of political bus, that the existence of such a school is of the utmost importance to the Empire, inasmuch as it would be able to convince Australia that its fate depends on the co-operation of the British navy. June I^. The Stan<laid, commenting on Mr Deakm's vie-\\ s and Lord Selborne's Capetown and Ratal's scheme of naval Volunteers, suggests thai the soundest plan is for each part of the Empire to provido generously for passive resistance, giving harder knocks than it receives, and mak» " such contributions in money, ships, or men as will enable the Admiralty at the shortest notice to concentrate au overwhelming force n{ tha piobable coint of attacks
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Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 33
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AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCES. LONDON, June 13.
Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 33
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