IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 March 1913, Page 5

IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

I GABLE NEWS

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DISCUSSION AT COLONIAL INSTITUTE. (Received Last Night, 10.20 o'clock.) LONDON, March 19. At a discussion in tho Colonial Institute, Viscount' Hythes read a paper on Imperial Defence. The Hon W, A. Holman justified the policy of an Australian Navy, and hoped it would be.the forerunner of a Pacific fleet. Lord Selborne, who presided, said that when the different parts of the Empire realised the existence of a common purpose justifying common action, they would find a requisite organisation. He advised the Motherland not to attempt isto set the pace beyond the rate at which the Dominions were prepared to go. AUSTRALIA'S POSITION. SPEECH BY HON JAMES ALLEN. (Received Last Ni>ht. 10.40 o'clock.) LONDON, March 19. Tho Hon. J,-vmes Allen, speaking at the Colonia] Institute, said Australia had nothing in lier mind except Imperial's™. Australia was .vise enough to that she was twwer'fss without T ne help of the Motherland. No Dominion was entitled to ask for a voice in tho Councils of the Emm're. ur-til i + ha<-] proeressed in Fit the day must coin-, vlin-i the Dominions would be rdmitt'd M England's Executive Council. Th« sr-oner it came the •soovo.r Imperial preference would lie reached.