PACIFIC FLEET
DOMINIONS SHOULD BEAR THE BURDEN NEW ZEALAND'S EXPEDITIONARY FORCE INTERVIEW WWH MR. ALLEN. By I'elegrapli.— rresß ABEOcUtlon.—Copyrignt, (Received Febntaiy 1, 8 n.m.) LONDON, ?.lst Jammry. Tlie Hon. .lames Allen, New Zealand's IvJimVier of Defence, in nn interview .-aitl that tun full burden of a l J acific iloct should 1" 'i.oine by those living in ihc Pacific, \. i ada. Australia, Now Zealand, and even South Africa and India, should unite for 4,hat purpose. Local navies for local purposes were use* Ices. The ileefc must be under one control. Xew Zealand hoped, to place an expeditionary force of ew»;ht thousand men at the disposal "F the Mother Country for sen ice in any pait of the Jimpi re. NEW ZEALAND COMMENDED. A LEAD FOR OTHER DOMfNITjNS (deceived February 1. 8 a.m.) LONDON, 31st -January. The Pall Mall Gazette scys that Mr. Allen's notification of an expeditionary force of eight thousand men is another instance of New Zealand's patriotism. ]f the other Dominions would organise similarly this would yield an army ready for sen ice almost equalling the Motherland's expeditionary force. Meanwhile it if- necessary to establish an Imperial patrol of commercial routes.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1913, Page 5
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193PACIFIC FLEET Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1913, Page 5
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