AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 240, 3 October 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.

FURTHER BRITISH CRITICISM. London, October 1. Tiie Daily Graphic declares that the Australian scheme of defence is hopelessly inadequate. it altogether ignores the larger problem of the defence of the Empire. «• The Daily Graphic and the Globe describe the Australian Defence Bill as a stimulating lead to the Motherland. The Telegraph states that it is not sure whether the direct advantages are comparable with the indirect benefits which the adoption of the Bill will confer on every class in every unit of the Empire by reminding them of their dirties equally with their rights.

THE "THUNDERER'S" VIEWS. Keceived 2, 10.35 p.iu, London, October 2. Tlio Times, in eulogising Air, Ewing's ('lie l'ederal Ministers) Bill of compulsory training, suys it is tJie best safeguard of compulsory service. "The Australian people," it says, "are the lirat community of the Empire to grapple [ jperiously with the duty of military t training cm a national scale. They wiil reap aiiijil,! reward in respect of nationnil security. only they may never haw to light because the better they are trained (lie smaller their risk, but apart from that, Mr. Swing's moasu-e .will greatly strengthen the Federal idea namely, the sense of citizenship in the great Commonwealth, and prow, if properly administered, poteat to evok e and organise Australian patriotism as'distinguished front the self-assertion of Jietonn or Queensland or New South Wi&res,