"A NAVAL BOGEY."

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14018, 24 September 1909, Page 2

"A NAVAL BOGEY."

(Received Sept. 24, 8.30 a.m..) LONDON, Sept. 23. Tbe Daily Graphic «ays the Com.noiivtcalth Defence Bill is of so noble ,v pl-in and arises bo generous and worthy an aspiration that it is almost impertinent to praise it. The Manchester Guardian says: jpuni s^tioiaoSitnjjn oq}. jo :pejj» auj,., at the Colonial Conference in London is diminishing our potential strength in Hone waters by cne cruiser and ore Dreadnought." Tho Manchester Guardian deprecates Mr. Joseph Cook's resting his case for tbe new arrangements partly, at any rato, on tho great naval superiority of Japan in tbe Far Eaet compared with Britain, and remarks: "We should bo very sorry to think. that Australia is going to nave a naval bogey of her or/n nnd make a Germany of Japan."