AUSTRALIAN DREADNOUGHT MOVEMENT.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12500, 29 March 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN DREADNOUGHT MOVEMENT.

... MEETING AT PERTH. A DISORDERLY SCENE, . -Perth, March 27. - The Mayoc,_ presided at a packed Dreadnought "meeting at the Towu Hall. Sir John Forrest moved a resolution asking the Federal Government to inform the Home authorities that the people of Australia were prepared t'< make every sacrifice to maintain the supremacy of the sea. The moving of an amendment on behalf of the Australian Natives' Association.that the necessary sacrifice take the shape of increased expenditure on local defence, led-to great disorder. The Mayor, amid a wild scene of commotion, declared Sir John Forlv&t's resolution carried. The . movers of the , amendment afterwards held an open-air meeting, and adopted~a resohition protesting, against the Mayor's ruling, and claiming that the amendment had been carried by three jfco one.