London vid Bombaz, September 25..
Alfred Deakin, Premier "of Aus, The Admiralty in reply to Mr.
tralia, agrees to the Commonwealth's providing and maintaining a local flotilla consisting of six torpedo-boat destroyers, nin marines and two depot' ships, cost of £1,250,000; together with 1,204 officers and men, who will be embodied in the Imperial Navy but will be controlled by the Commonwealth when in Australian waters, The Sydney dockyard, as formerly, will be reserved for Imperial purposes.—Reuter, PECIAL SERVICE, By arrangement with " Der Ostasiatische Lloyd."
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