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POSITION IN AUSTRALIA. NEED OF ACCELERATION URGED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. CANBERRA, July 5. At today’s meeting of the Commonwealth Defence Council, the Minister of Defence, Brigadier-General Street, urged on the Government the need of an immediate acceleration of the more vital provisions of the three-year defence programme. The council discussed the delay in obtaining Parliamentary sanction for raising the permanent mobile force to 7500, as recommendedby the Inspec-tor-General of the Military Forces, Lieutenant-General Squires. Stress was laid on the gravity of the international situation, and the importance attached by Lieutenant-General Squires to the value of a mobile force. The council will continue the meeting tomorrow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1939, Page 7
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107DEFENCE SCHEME Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1939, Page 7
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