AUSTRALIA AND THE NAVY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2137, 1 May 1914, Page 7

AUSTRALIA AND THE NAVY

A FRANK APPEAL; - BY ADMIRAL KINO-HALL Bj- Telofffa-pJi-Fims Aisepciatios-Copyricht (Eμ. April-30, 11.5 p.m.) London* April 30. Rfi.'ir-Admirai Sir George lung-Hal!, in an article in tlio "A'iiietcentli Cen-t.m-y," preiicts that the Australian Navy will act as a consolidating rathnr than as a disintegrating force iu the Commonwealth's rdatious v-ith the Km , - pire, provided tho Motherland's statesiVien regard tlio ineyemeat with i'w , - teachiiig Vision, iookiiig to Jho i'utiM'is potontialities rtf tho.Empire and of tljo Dominion.- Tlio p tiroo was approaching, if it hatl not already come, when tile poiiiijiitfiis li'ould dpjnand a friler voice, in the tauncils of tlio Empire, csjJwially with regard to naval defence. Imperial, and, part.icufa.rij-, naval 'etefcues conferences, his adds, should be mot'O frequent tfcm hitherto, now tlrnt tlio means of transit was Easier and quicker. There ought .to he a permanent suheoHimitteo, always ill session, keeping the. different Governments in cfiiittant, nnttiuvl touch.

The serious drawbacks *n tlio. 'defaic-e of tliß Commonwealth., addp tho Writer, nto the ■ different railway gauges. Ho hopos that the HomfcreoH. prograinino will ho rigid!} , adhered to, oikl not become- a subject of eoiitontwu l)(<t,woen political parties, for Australia's future influence depends largely an the stteooss of tiro Essier Jiiival policy. ,