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AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE POLICY NAVY LEAGUE WARNING. <» Press Association—Copyright. (Received 10.10 a.in.) Melbourne, June 2. At a mooting, of the Navy League, speakers stressed the fact that if Japan fortified the Marshal and Caroline Islands, her naval bases would bo 2000 miles nearer Australia than at present, and urged the need for a definite Australian naval policy. Prominence was given to the fact that Britain was no longer the first sea Power, having fallen below the United States. The speakers contended that n was unsafe for any single nation at the present time to disarm, and Australia’s defence policy must bn part of the’ S?'tpire policy.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 30, 2 June 1923, Page 5
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