INVASION OF AUSTRALIA.
', 24,000 MEN SUFFICIENT. fly Telegraph—Press Association—Gonyrfirlut Sydney, September 18. Colonel Foster, •■; Director of Military Bciencp, at Sydney University, is of opinion l that a hostile army consisting of twenty thousand infantry, four thousand horse, and sixty guns would be unable to Invade Australia with any prospect of success if the present forces were -rt-ell trained'and fully prepared to'take the field. ' , He adds:—"Under present conditions this hostile force would suffice." His opinion is based on recent skeleton manoeuvres.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1549, 19 September 1912, Page 5
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80INVASION OF AUSTRALIA. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1549, 19 September 1912, Page 5
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