AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE PLANS EXPANDED
“THREE-YEAR PROGRAMME DWARFED” SYDNEY, November 24. The Canberra correspondent of The Sydney Morning Herald says the defence plans which the Federal Ministry now envisages will dwarf the three-year programme announced by the Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons) last April. The programme announced in April was estimated to cost £43.000,000. The programme that the Ministry now contemplates will cost £60,000,000 and possibly £70,000,000. The Ministers are satisfied, says the correspondent, that the original programme must be greatly -'-xpanded because they are convinced that the whole basis of Australia’s preparations for an emergency has changed. In the past it has been assumed Australia’s danger would lie in coastal raids and attacks on sea-borne trade. Now it is admitted that the possibility of invasion cannot be ignored.
Defence expenditure in future, therefore, is likely to be concentrated ..on the army and air forces, with the object of repulsing a large-scale attack.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19381125.2.57
Bibliographic details
Southland Times, Issue 23675, 25 November 1938, Page 6
Word Count
153AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE PLANS EXPANDED Southland Times, Issue 23675, 25 November 1938, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.