DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 5

DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.

the AUSTRALIAN NAVY. By j Electric Telegraph.—Copyright (United Press Association.) London, February 26. The Australian correspondent of the Morning Post holds that toe Admiralty is responsible for the misconceptions with regard to the Australian navy. it is known that the Admiralty prepared a declaration defining the status in 1911, but the publications was withheld. The Australian correspondent points out that a White Paper of the 1911 conference strictly limits the navy’s spheres’ excluding the Pacific. ' ! ' \ PROBLEMS OF PATRIOTISM. Ottawa, February 26. Mr Bennett, member for Calgary, speaking in the naval debate, said that the problem of patriotism remained to be dealt with throughout Western Canada. When British arms were defeated in South Africa bon fires blazed on the prairies. Many people voted for reciprocity because they understood that' the-States wanted it. Recently Greeks and Bulgarians left the West in order to join in the Balkan war. All such things' indicated that the immigrant population was still far from assimilated. I