AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE PROBLEM
PROTECTION OF COASTS AGAINST THREAT OF ATTACK.
(Rec. September 12, 5.5 p.m.) London, September 11. Tho "Daily Chronicle," referring to the recent speech by the Commonwealth Prime Minister (Mr. W. M. Hughes) says: "The speech is an mdicatßn of the seriousness with which tho Commonwealth is addressing itself to the problem of defence Though in the case of Imperial complications Australia wou d help Britain, as she did in tho World War, this is not tho real Australian defence problem, which is iiow to protect tho coasts of her vast territory against the threat of attack. Australia, like Britain, is an island, but with an' infinitely longer and \noro vulnerable coastline Near her small white population are the densely packed populations of Asia which have caught the restless spirit of tho modern world. This is tho meaning of tho very modest Bchemo which Mr. Hughes outlined."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. _ _ _
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 300, 13 September 1920, Page 5
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151AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE PROBLEM Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 300, 13 September 1920, Page 5
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