COLONIAL DEFENCES.
London, May 14. At the Royal Colonial Institute Lieutenant-Colonel F. Owen, of the Royal Artillery, read a paper on the military iorces of Australia. These, he said, consisted of 83,000 men with 150 guns, and the Austra'ian militia surpassed that of England. lie considered that combined action of the Australian forces was a necessity. Sir Charles Dilke referred to Australia as the safest part of the Empire, and relatively the best prepared for war. The Westport cool mine, he thought, ought to be defended. Colonel Brackenbury considered that neither France nor Russia was likely to use the Pacific as a basis for a serious attack on Australian ports. Attacks by small cruisers was the only danger Australia had to fear, and a first-rate federal army was the best means of protection,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2047, 17 May 1890, Page 1
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