A SIGHT OF GREY SEASENTINELS
AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER'S PANEGYRIC , "*l AM CONTENT AND SATISFIED" By Telegraph-Press Aesociation-Oonyiight London, May 1. Mr. AV. M. Hughes has been, deeply impressed by a visit to the British Fleet.. Interviewed, Mr. Hughes said: "I have seen the mightiest instrument of power ever fashioned by man, stretching away far on the horizon in numbers seemingly endless. I hare seen the invulnerable Navy ; behind whose ample cover the Empire has rested 'since the outbreak or', war, and still rests in perfect security. I have spoken to men into whose hands the Empire has entrusted the care of this embodiment of its power, this bulwark of its safety. I am content and satisfied. These are men who will not fail us. They realise that upon, them rests the safety not only of Britain and tho Empire, but civilisation. They are quietly confident because the pulses of youth leap in.their reins. In them is the moral force upringiiig from the most glorious iraditions. Inthem lives the spirit which led Drake and Nelson to victoyy. \Yo mo? bend every energy in the prosecution of the war with the certain assw-. exice that Britain's command of the seas is '-jfe in their hands."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2761, 3 May 1916, Page 5
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203A SIGHT OF GREY SEASENTINELS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2761, 3 May 1916, Page 5
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