FEDERAL DEFENCE.
o REPORT OF MILITARY EXPERTS. [Pee Press Association.! SYDNEY, Dec. 29. The Minister of Defence has received the report of the conference of military commanders, recently held at Melbourne. It contains recommendations in regard to the federal defence of King George's \ Sound, Thursday Island, Port Darwin and Roebuck Bay. and the federal drilling of troops. It strongly favours the establishment of a cordite factory in the colonies, and suggests the necessity for protecting the cables against hostile Powers.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5757, 29 December 1896, Page 3
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