The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 26, 1927. THE NAVY ESSENTIAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1927, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 26, 1927. THE NAVY ESSENTIAL.

Commanihmi Map.sden, an ex-member of the Itnynl Navy in an address to the members of the -Millions Club at Sydney recently said : ‘Tf we are to exist as an Empires we must have a navy to protect the world-wide British inlere-ts. British life, and British honour. Wben the navy is no longer with ns the Empire will ernmblc away." Coat inning, Commander .Marsden said there was some idea, amongst a number of people that England to-day was down and out. One young man had said to him on the way nut to Australia that England would not go for another ten years. That man was greatly mistaken, for an Englishman always fought to a finish. England was not going to ho knocked out at all. When one thought of. that Great War it made one realise what England had dene. Slip alone put four men out of every lire into the field, and put in £9 out of every £lO. This meant that it was certain reaction would he felt. England would rise again, and she was doing tin's now. (Applause). When he looked at Australia be realised that' out here they were carrying on the traditions of everything that was English and British. Communism, he

said, was a menace, not to one country. hut to the whole world, and it was the duty of everyone to light it. An Englishman at heart was not a Communist and never would he. Tt a man was a Communist he certainly was no Englishman or Briton. Bolshevism came down from the dictatorship of Moscow. Bussia to-day was controlled by a small minority in Moscow. Socialists declared that they were going

to take over the control of production and distribution. This meant that if any individual Built up a Business and provided employment that business would lie seized hv the State. In England that would be impossible. Communists did not desire to attain .to the position which they advocated, but

sought to obtain it by tile .short cut of seizing production and distribution. Lul immediately a Communist or Socialist in England said to anyone “take it-'’ lie would be arrested by the police. It was incredible that anyone should believe the tilings advocated by the Communists. Men of responsible positions were rather to blame tbal. they did counter this sort; of talk. Commander M a radon said that any talk of menace from Japan was an injustice to .Email. When the time came for an alliance Japan sought it, with England, and it was not dissolved until Japan entered the League of Nations. What surprised him when he arrived in Australia was that l.lioy were still arguing about the Singapore base. All lliev now sought to do was to build a dry dock lo accommodate the latest airships and battleships. Singapore was chosen liy experts because it was the centre of all their Eastern traffic. ’Experts said that Singapore was necessary, hut it might he that it vouhl never he wanted, ft was only

tin insurance such as any business man would enter into.