STATEMENT IN THE FEDERAL HOUSE.
Melbourne, August 8. In connection with the cabled statement of Colonel Fox ton, the Australian delegate to the Defence Conference, in reference to the naval «übsidy, Mr. Deakin, in replying to questions in the Federal HoiKc, said Colonel Foxton wai jiistiried hi making the statement he had made.
According to the Federal Ministers, the assumption which had been given currency that Australia is to agree wftU New Zealand and other parts of the Empire ill raising a loan to create ft cruiser squadron in the Pacific, is wholly unwarranted.
it has not been settled that any cruiser fleet (or presentation of cruisers) is to be formed which will alternate to the form the Dreadnought offer will take. Xo propositions of the kind have been cabled from the Defence Conference to the Government here.
WANT FREIGHT-CARS MORE THAN BATTLESHIPS."
Received 0, 10 p.m. Ottawa, August 6, Mr. Murphy, Secretary of State of the Dominion Cabinet, declared that the people of Western Canada are apathetic in relation to Imperial defence, and want closed freight cars more thaa battleships,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 166, 7 August 1909, Page 2
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181STATEMENT IN THE FEDERAL HOUSE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 166, 7 August 1909, Page 2
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