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DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA.

—♦•i . ■ . ' ". "tONDOK- Sept. 11. The Daily Chronicle says # that Mr* H-ughes' speech is ah indieatio.ni of the .seriousness witli which -.the- Commonwealth Li addressing itself to the problem of defence. Though in* the case of Imperial complications Australia., would help. Britain, ' as she did m the world- war, this is not the real Australian kief ence problem, which is; how to -ptotect the coasts of >her vast territory against the threat of attack. Australia/, like .■Britain, is an island, but with an" infinitely longer and moz-e -vulnerable coastlina. •- Near her small white population.' . are -the densely-packed populations of, Asia, which* have caught the restless spirit o: the modern world: This: is the meaning of the very modest soheme" iwhich Mr. Hughes outlinied.— A., -kaid 'N.ZiC.A.

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15317, 13 September 1920, Page 8

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DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15317, 13 September 1920, Page 8

DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15317, 13 September 1920, Page 8