AUSTRALIAN NAVY.
A LEGISLATOR'S MISdIVINCS. Sydney. February 1(1. 'Mr. Johnson, a member of the House of Representatives, speaking at a Loyal Orange gathering. said tliev would have to carefully wateh tilie naval policy of the Conimo-nwealth. because under the g;uise of creating alf Australian navy, the party ill power were striving to get the nucleus of a. navv—not to aet 'it conjunction witli the British fleet. Some of them would not say all thov ltad in their mind's eye at a time when they would be able to turn an Australian lleet against the British in Australian | waters. The sentiment, was there and | the spirit was actively fanned in ijunrI ters which Orange institutions actively opposed.
A FOOLISH AND HYSTERICAL STATEMENT.
Received 10, 0.15 p.m. Melbourne, February Ift. The Minister of Defence characterised Mr. Johnson's statement, that in certain quarters tile idea of constructing ail Australian navy was to turn it against the British' lleet, as hysterical. 'tTie charge was as false, as it was hysterical.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 15, 11 February 1909, Page 2
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166AUSTRALIAN NAVY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 15, 11 February 1909, Page 2
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