THE DEFENCE QUESTION.
As for universal training, we cannot but express our amazement that, with th©v world moving at express speed towards the crash and collision of opposing national and racial interests, a collision which can only be averted by unprecedented diplomacy, Sir Joseph Ward should still hesitate to : adopt it as the basis of his local defence policy, says the Auckland "Herald." For, as neither guns nor rifles can be obtained at a moment's notice so the manhood of a country can only be trained to defend it through partient years.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3154, 3 April 1909, Page 4
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92THE DEFENCE QUESTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3154, 3 April 1909, Page 4
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