DEFENCE PLANS
AUSTRALIAN PROGRAMME BEING CARRIED OUT WITH EXPEDITION. STATEMENT BY MR LYONS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Commonwealth Premier (Mr J. A. Lyons) stated that the success of the drive to increase the militia strength to 70,000 and of the £63,000,000 defence programme generally was in sight. Mr Lyons, who will preside over a meeting of the Australian Defence Council today, added that Australians should know that the defence programme is being carried out with the greatest expedition and that when completed it would assure them of reasonable security against aggression.
RADIO STATIONS
POWERFUL UNITS AT DARWIN. FOR USE OF NAVAL FORCES. (Received This Day. 11.5 a.m.) DARWIN, This Day. Two long-range radio stations, which are to cost about £40,000, will be erected near Darwin this year by the Commonwealth Government, for use by the Royal Australian Navy. The stations, which will be among the most powerful in the world, will be erected as one of the principal links in the chain of defence of British waters south of the Tropic of Cancer and are intended to form part of Australia’s development of Darwin as Si southern adjunct to Singapore.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 January 1939, Page 5
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