NAVAL DEFENCE.
THE JAPANESE ALLIANCE.
ATTITUDE Of COLONIES. *
Press Association—Eleotria Teleerarjh-^-CoDyrii!h«.
(Received Thursday, at .10.20 a.m.) MELBO URNE, Thursday. Speaking at a banquet at. Wangaratta, Mr J. Cook, Federal Prime Minister, iv referring to the reliance upon the .'Japanese treaty for peace in tho Pacific, said that they were-under treaty obligations with a nation whose people they might not admit to their shores. They must at all cost defend a White Australia, policy He believed the time was ripe for the development of a naval defence. He 'would like to see. Canada and South Africa round a conference table as well as Australia, aud New Zealand. Tho latter had so far kept its contributions towards the strength of the Imperial navy on the other hand Australia, had begun to develop its own navy. He hoped Mr Massev's latest speech Avas indicative of the feeling iv .New Zealand and that they would soon be able to welcome the Dominion in the compact.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19140326.2.21
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11937, 26 March 1914, Page 5
Word Count
161NAVAL DEFENCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11937, 26 March 1914, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.