When the Prime Minister i troduced his Bill for the appropria tion of £2,500,000 for moval con Mruction ie waa expected that he Could outline the. Commonwealth's Hiefence policy. That, however, has Set to come. 'The present proposal before parliament is that. £2000,000 shall be voted to the purchase of a modern 10,000 ton cruiser to be built in Britain, while £500,000 is to. be placed toa defence reserve. It is Fencrally admitted' on both sides Politics that two cruisers are requit-fi, and a desperate effort is. being made by the Labour party, and Tew extreme Proteetioists to. hav the second craiver built in Australia, The whole argument it likely to tur tapen the building of the cruisers The Prime 3inieter i, for the moment, dodging: the feste." 1 dleclaves that no Anal estimates hav tien made of the core of a focally erulacr, Vat he hss had to admit tat much of the material would ecewarily be imported, and thet any case foul take,' an arain the United Kingdom, of least 69 per to be no more than ten years it is a aval from the strictly commercial point of view thut the cruis Aus tralia would he practi descent Hist was Fed. The Opposition is not sed to allow any naval addiis, unless they be the outcome spending money to employ, Aus-trullans, Probably it'will require the practical lesson of "The Englishman's Home" to convince the Lub-our Unions, The Prime Minister made it clear. however, that he has no definite naval policy. That, he says, will be announced with *he Treasurer's Budget at the end of this month, but even then he assures us that nothing will be proposed cal-Premier is slowly. but/eulated to remedy the unfortunate:
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