OUR DEFENCE.
CONCILIATORY STATEMENT,
PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT Riceived 10.17 p.m , August 80. London, August 80. Tho Times, oommonting ou its Australian correspondent’s declaration that the naval agreement between Great Britain and the Commonwealth is unpopular states that any scheme advocated as the best by local authorities will receive attentive, even sympathetic, consideration. It believes there is no foundation for saving I that Captain Oresswel.’e scheme was per emptorily and contemptuously rejected The report of tbe commiltee ou Imuerini defence embodied merely a “iendly opinion, given solely because the Commonwealth solicited it. It was neoessarilv based on the Admiralty’s candid opinion after taking into acoount purely naval and strategic consideration, apart from cuestions of political expediency and Ausfcralian pub'io sentiment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1848, 31 August 1906, Page 2
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119OUR DEFENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1848, 31 August 1906, Page 2
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