BURDEN OF PACIFIC DEFENCE

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 3, 28 September 1921, Page 5

BURDEN OF PACIFIC DEFENCE

AMERICAN AND BRITISH COOPERATION FAVOURED. London, September 26. Mr. David Fell, of Sydney, who _ recently visited New York and Washington, interviewed by tho Australian J&’ess Agency, said that when he discussed the Prcific question with Senator Borah and other political leaders in Washington on the basis of' the readjustment of the burden' of Pacific defence by common action by the* United States and Britain and tho Dominions, it was pointed out that, though n]l had individual points of view, it was impossible for them to remain divided owing to the severe economic pressure compelling them to come together and co-operate in the naval policing of the Pacific. Mix Fell states that senators whom he met favoured working for a reduction of America S gigantic burden by co-operation with the British Empire, instead of endeavouring to outbuild her They were .in full sympathy with the' British Dominions in the Pacific, whose interests were identical with their own, and whose people they like, —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.