IMPERIAL DEFENCE-
ENGLAND SHOULD SECURE THE OCEAN HIGHWAY.
'BOTH FOR OURSELVES AND FOR OTHERS.
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LONDON, June 10. Mr McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at the Shipwrights’ Companies’ dinner, said: “Wo should . have the power to secure the ocean highway alike to ourselves and others. We have no great army behind the navy. We can injure no nation. A navy could injure another’s commerce, but wo know that injury to the commerce of any other nation is an injury to our own.”
AUSTRALIA’S OFFER
VIEWS OF THE IMPERIAL AUTHORITIES.
MELBOURNE, Juno 11
Though no definite ’ statement Las been made yet, it is understood that the Imperial authorities have expressed the'view that defe.nce would be best served, not by providing a Dreadnought, but in some other way.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2526, 12 June 1909, Page 5
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131IMPERIAL DEFENCE- Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2526, 12 June 1909, Page 5
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