AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.
SIR JOHN COCKBURN'S OPINION. United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. (Received August 18, 7.43 a.m.) LONDON, August 17. Sir John Cockburn, in an .interview, supported Captain Cresswell's views in favour of an Australian flotilla to supplement the Imperial fleet. He said the question would, be one of the deepest importance fifteen or twenty years hence, when, the naval development of the rival nations had further advanced. Sir John Cockburn emphasised the recent announcement as to reductions in the strength of the Navy, -and urged that the Empire should profit from the power of initiative and invention, wherever found within the Empire. Had only the Motherland's regiments existed in Australia there would have been no Australian contingents to South Africa, and the analogy applied in regard to the sea. '
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8704, 18 August 1906, Page 4
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131AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8704, 18 August 1906, Page 4
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