DEFENCE POLICY TO BE RECAST
MAIN DANGER TO AUSTRALIA IMPORTANCE OF SEA COMMUNICATIONS CONCENTRATION ON NAVY DEVELOPMENTS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received August 24, midnight) CANBERRA, August 24. Australia's defence policy is to be recast as a result of the Imperial Conference. The Government will concentrate in the new programme upon the Navy as the first line of defence. Other aspects of local defence such as expansion of the Air Force and munitions manufacture, both Government and commercial, will lake precedence over steps to repulse possible attacks by other countries.
The Pyime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons, in a 14,000 word report on the Imperial Conference, emphasised the need for Australia’s co-operation with Britain in naval expansion, visualising the main danger to Australia in a struggle between British and enemy fleets for the control of sea communications.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20815, 25 August 1937, Page 9
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139DEFENCE POLICY TO BE RECAST Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20815, 25 August 1937, Page 9
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