AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCES.
NEW POLICY DECIDED ON. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right. CANBERRA. August 24. Australia’s defence policy is to be cast as a result of the Imperial Conference. The Government will concentrate in. its new programme upon the Navy as its first line of defence. Other aspects of local delence such as the expansion of the Air Force and munitions manufacture, both Government and commercial, will take precedence over steps to repulse possible attacks by other countries. Mr Lyons, the Federal Prime Minister, in a 14.000-word report on tile Imperial Conference, emphasised the need for Australia’s co-operation with Britain in naval expansion, visualising the main, danger to Australia as a struggle between the British and enemy fleets for tlie control of sea communications.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13639, 25 August 1937, Page 5
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