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FLY!NG=BOATS ORDERED BY AUSTRALIA MINISTER TAKES EXCEPTION TO PRESS COMMENT. “INSIDIOUS AND DANGEROUS.” By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. MELBOURNE, May 27. The Minister of Defence, Mr Street, announced today that the Commonwealth Government had ordered from England an undisclosed number of Short Sunderland flying-boats for reconnaissance off the Australian coast. They will be based at Lake Macquarie and Port Moresby. The Minister took tne opportunity to reply to Brisbane newspaper comment that: “People in far northern Queensland are awaiting with fatalistic calm the arrival of the Japanese immediately after the outbreak of the next war.” Mr Street described such comment as insidious and dangerous to the harmonious relations between Australia and Japan. He added that the comment had no basis in fact or feasibility and he hoped it would be stopped.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1939, Page 6
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