NEW AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE PLAN
Navy Regarded As First Line CO-OPERATION WITH BRITAIN POSSIBLE THREAT TO SEA COMMUNICATIONS 'United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received August 25, 12.5 a.m.) CANBERRA, August 24. Australia’s defence policy is to be recast as a result of the Imperial Conference. The Government will concentrate in its new programme upon the Navy as the first line of defence.
Other aspects of local defence, such as expansion of the Air Force and the manufacture of munitions, both Government and commercial, will take precedence over steps to repulse possible attacks by other countries. The Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons) in a report, 14,000 words in length, on the Imperial Conference, emphasized the need for Australia’s co-operation with Britain in naval expansion, visualizing the main danger to Australia in a struggle between the British and enemy fleets for control of sea communications.
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Southland Times, Issue 23287, 25 August 1937, Page 5
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