AUSTRALIAN DEFENSE.
THE FEDERAL PREMIER’S VIEWS. SELF-RELIANCE NEEDED. United Press Association, Copyright MELBOURNE, Feb. 2. Mr. Fisher, the Federal Premier, speaking at the Australian Native Association’s dinner, said it must be impressed on the people that they must practically rely on themselves for defence in co-operation with the Mother Country. . “We cannot,” he Laid, “have an efficient sea defence unless the navy is controlled by our own people in co-operation with Britain. In regard to military defence I am entirely in favoj. - of compul.soiy training.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2416, 3 February 1909, Page 5
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85AUSTRALIAN DEFENSE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2416, 3 February 1909, Page 5
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