THE AUSTRALIAN FLEET.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9368, 10 February 1909, Page 5

THE AUSTRALIAN FLEET.

AN ORANGE::AN’S OPINION. ' United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received February 10, 10.15 a.m, Sydney, February 10. Mr Johnson, member of the Honse of Representatives, speaking at a Loyal Orange gathe-ing, said they wonld have caiefuily to watch the naval policy of the Commonwealth because under the guise of creating an Anstralian navy the party |in power were striving to get the nucleus of a navy not to act in conjunction with the British fleet hut some of them would not say all they bad in their minds. They had an eye to the time when they wonld he able to turn the Australian fleet against the British fleet in Australian waters. The sentiment was there and the spirit was actively fanned in quarters which Orange institutions actively opposed.