AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.

West Coast Times, 21 April 1911, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.

ADMIRAL HENDERSON INTERVIEWED.

[per FEES' ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.]

LONDON, April, 20.

A Reuter representative interviewed Admiral Henderson on his return from Australia. He said that he had been much impressed with the intense loyalty existing in Australia. The basis of the Australian naval scheme, he declared, was a belief that an enemy threatening any part of the Empire was" Australia’s enemy, and also a recognition of the immense and paramount necessity of an Australian Navy supporting the rest of the Empire. A naval force for the defence of the Australian coasts and shipping was only a secondary object. In war time it would be essential, he said, to place the Australian fleet under the control of the British Admiralty.