DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.
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AUSTRALIA AND HER OBLIGATIONS.
AN EXAMPLE BEING SET
Received December 20, 9.3 a.m. LONDON, December 19. Captain Collins, Commonwealth Agent, in replying to the "Daily Graphic's" criticism, denied that Australia had ever, either in practice or in principle, failed to recognise her obligations to aid in the general defence of the Empire. Australia was petting an example to the Empire by obliging her citizens to train for the defence of the country. (In the course of a speech at the Imperial Conference, Mr Deakin said that Australians were doing their best to fit themselves for an extraordinary emergency, though he believed '-.hat while the British Navy remained they cculd sit secure in chair own domain. They had not dwelt on martial pictures or encouraged military display, but felt that the time had come, to the most peaceful of citizen, when concession and passivity would become unmanly, and then force must be applied. They were doing their best to prepare themselves to discharge their full measure of responsibility to their country and their King.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9011, 21 December 1907, Page 5
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186DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9011, 21 December 1907, Page 5
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