AUSTRALIAN DESTROYERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 923, 16 September 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN DESTROYERS.

. . AN INSPECTION. '■■ ■■ By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 14. On the invitation. of the- Australian High Commissioner (Sir Georgo Held) and Commander' Tickell, of the Australian Navy, a largo, party of Australians,, including; Australian; journalists. attending t'ho Press Conference, inspected the Australian destroyers Yarra and Parramatta. ' Among those ■'■present; wero Mr., T. W. ! Hc-ney (editor of tho "Sydney Morning Herald"), .Professor Biles (tho naval architect), Captain' Muirhead Collins (secretary to the Australian High Commissioner), Dr. M'Call (Agent-General ..for Tasmania), Sir. T. B. Robinson (Agont- • General for Queensland), Mr. T. A. Coghlan (Agent-General for New South Wales), and Mr; R. C. Hare, (AgentGeneral for Western Australia). ; '0 Grant, of the first-class .. cruiser Gibraltar which is escortingtho' destroy-, ers to Fremantle, inspected .tho. destroyed . ; ■ ; .- : Admiral. Sjr s Assheton Curzon-Howo (Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth) and his staff received .the. party at Portsmouth and accompanied'it. Sir George Reid made a stirring speech on "The Royal Navy," and Sir Assheton-Curzon-Howe replied. •'■■; ./

■■ BRITAIN'S. ONLY SAFETY. ' (Rec. September 15, 10.10 p.m.) London, September ID. - Sir George Reid, speaking at Portsmouth, recalled Australia's. former sensu oE seourity aa long as Britain's . was piactically the only navy in the world; Events had since marched, rapidly, 1 and without questioning'other people's . sincerity. and peaceful sentiments it was impossible' to ! forget that peace or war was often in the hands of a single man. Britain's, only safeguard was. to: continuo to build Dreadnoughts so as to ensure a perfect margin of 'safety.