COLONIAL DEFENCE.
Per Press Association.—Copyright. London, July 31
In the House of Lords Lord Brassey complained that the reasonable demands of the colonies for the loan of vessels suitable for training seamen were not granted. He said the Motherland ought to also supply large cruisers and ocean destroyers for the protection of Australian trade. Lord Twccdmouth denied that colonial interests were being neglected. He said that a wellmanned Australian flotilla of destroyers and submarines would ho a very substantial defence against casual raids, also of the greatest assistance to the British fleet in the event of war. Personally he did not believe in sending odd cruisers to odd places all over the world as the essence of the modern policy was fleet concentration.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8878, 1 August 1907, Page 2
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123COLONIAL DEFENCE. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8878, 1 August 1907, Page 2
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