THE DEFENCE QUESTION.
If we make effective our local defences as Australia is actually doing, as Canada is likely to do, as the United Kingdom is being urged to do by her greatest soldiers and sailors, what would be the result? The probability is we should never be attacked if every part did the same, for weakness invites attack, excites ambitions, incites envy and hatred in the twentieth century as in the eleventh. Sir Joseph Ward is not handling the defen-.e question strongly, remarks the Auckland "Herald," for the simple reason that the public is not yet thoroughly awakened to the necessity of reorganising the whole defence system for training every lad to defend his country, and for providing weapons with which our riflemen and artillerymen would fight on equal terms with any assailants of our cities and our farms.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3187, 12 May 1909, Page 4
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140THE DEFENCE QUESTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3187, 12 May 1909, Page 4
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