Imperial Defence.
SPEECHES AT THE COLONIAL
INSTITUTE.
Press Association Electric Tclepaph Copyright.
London, April 20
Captain Hntton, late Commandant of the Now South Wales Forces read a paper before the Colonial Institute on defence. He said it was time the Empire cooperated in a scheme of mutual defence under an elastic policy on the lines of Australian federal defence, controlled by a Council of Defence. A hundred and seventythree thousand Federal militia were available, on a basis of population, foi Imperial defence. Canada and Australia supply 14,000 eaoh; South Africa 7000. Additional troops available for local defence 309,000, the Australian proportion thereof being 12,571.
Sir Saul Samuel said that when necessary the Colonies would share the defence of the Empire. "".'' ' Sir H9nry Norman stated the Colonies did not at present realise the necessity, but when, : in the face of war, would do all that was necessary.
Major-General Bovan Edwards suggested that a committee of the Cabinet ought to be entrusted to declare authoritatively the requirements for the defence of the Empire.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9020, 22 April 1898, Page 2
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