DEFENCE POLICY
AUSTRALIA GIVES A LEAD. The Defence policy of the Government has not yet been announced, although the Minister of Defence (Sir E>aton Rhodes) has stated that he will inform the House of Representatives of his intentions during the session. Interest in the matter has been increased by the announcement of a new scheme of training by the Commonwealth Minister of Defence. The Australian proposal is that youths shall receive ten weeks' training in their eighteenth year, presumably,in enmp, to 1)0 followed by 118 days trftinin? during the next four years. The ideas of Now Zealand's military experts do not differ greatly from those of the officers who drafted the Australian scheme. War experience proved that a few weeks' concentrated tramin in camp is Tcr r more effective in the making of efficient soldiers than the eame amount of time snrcad over manr whole-day and halfdaj pa-rades. But there have been indications that the Neiv Zealand Gi inent was averse to making camp tram ing for periods of several weeks at a time a part of the new scheme. The tralian example may have some '"j™ 1108 ■upon the Dominion'ij training system.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 306, 20 September 1920, Page 4
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193DEFENCE POLICY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 306, 20 September 1920, Page 4
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