Federal Defence.
0 : Mblboohnb, July 0. In the House of Reptesehtatlv'es Sir ji. Forest explained the Defence Bill. ThS dtierice expenditure of the federatiA| States was last year nearly £800,00&. They could not afford to spend much mote in the future thin they had done i& the past. The Transvaal war had proved that Aus.ralia’s citizen soldiers could bold their own with trained veteran;£ The Bill provided that the GovernorGeneral bad .supreme control, with A Minister to advise him and a general Command ~r. Th i Slate both cilia 1 a and permanent 'officers, would be t-eated al’kC according to the dflt'e Pf the’r Commissions. No officer fronlJ be allowed to bold one command lor more than five years. The highest frank bf officers apart from the general officer would be limited to colonel in th% military and captain in the naval secVick. With all life Aik a, in the Common wealth between the Ages Of eighteen and sixty, for whi.-h the Bill gave petfer b» called otitj Australia Coeld raise & force Of nkaily 974,000. They wattted fw the cOmihander One ef tht best men in the Imperial a with* experience of and the tuftaenholdtOto,
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 175, 13 July 1901, Page 1
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195Federal Defence. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 175, 13 July 1901, Page 1
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