NATIONAL DEFENCE.
TRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT London, August 20. A Times article on the report cf the Committoe on Imperial Defence relative to Australian defence, says Lord Selborne, when First Lard of the Admiralty, told the Colonial Conference that the solitary iask of tbe Imperial fliet was to seek the enemy’s ships wherever they were to be found and destroy them. Australian feeling regarding foreign bases and prepara tions ignores the fact that the base does not menace anything beyond the range of its own gun?, unless a mobile naval force I were stationed there, in whioh oibs it becomes tho British fleet's solitary task to seek to destroy that force. Nevertheless, the Australians' laudable aspiration to participate in defence by land and sea is deserving of nothing but Gncouragetmnt from the Motherland, Tbe real problem is to yield whatever can be conceded without weakening tha panoply of Imperial defeno?, and to eschew bickering?. An advance towards that problrm should be made at the Colonial Conference which will at least give tbe Australian delegates an opportunity of hearing, and perhaps appreciating more sympathetically, the views of tho Committee cf Imperial Dtfence.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1840, 22 August 1906, Page 2
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190NATIONAL DEFENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1840, 22 August 1906, Page 2
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