IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) LONDON, July 12. The Premier presided at a meeting of the Defence Committee.-' Mr Borden (Canadian Premier) and other members of the Canadian Cabinet, Lord Haldane (ex-Minister for War), Mr Lloyd- George (Chancellor of the Exchequer), and Mr Churchill (rtrst Lord of the Admiralty) attended. , - , A .* - Messrs Churchill and Borden, wiU discuss shortly the general basis of the naval question before- the * formal conference begins. The Daily News states that the Admiralty will aslc, for an increase of probably four millions : in next; year's estimates. MELBOURNE, July 12. ' Senator Pearce (Minister for Defence) has (accepted the War Office offer of samples of the new. pattern of rifle. Senator 'Pearce states that if the proposed new ammunition embodying the pointed bullet is adopted," ii Avill entail a complete change of rifles throughout the Empire-.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 5
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