The advance Australia

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N 059.4 ADV
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Melbourne : F. Davison, 1897-
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Vol. 15 No. 05 (9 May 1911)
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THE  

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA  

Registered at the General Post Office, Melb.  

for transmission by Post as Newspaper.  

VOL. XV., No. 5.  

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dition.  

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apply to the Manager, Monahan’s Buildings, 231  

Flinders-lane, Melbourne.  

ALL REPORTS OF MEETINGS, Etc.,  

Contributions on National or Association topics  

should be sent to the Editor, Monahan’s Buildings,  

231 Flinders-lane, Melbourne.  

Members are particularly invited to forward re-  

ports on any matters of interest to the Association.  

Such reports require to be disseminated through the  

branches in every part of Australia for the benefit of  

our great organisation. We will, therefore, gladly  

receive and insert them if space will permit.  

SPECIAL NOTICE TO BRANCHES.  

We will be glad to receive items of Association  

news and reports of branch meetings. This will  

lend to keep the members more in touch with each  

other, and promote friendly intercourse in manner  

that must be beneficial to the Association.  

SEA POWER AND NAVAL  

BASES.  

‘ ‘ Being girt by the sea and having no inland  

frontiers to protect Australia is compelled to  

regard the sea itself as her first and natural  

line of defence.” —Admiral Henderson's Report.  

Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson  

was invited by the Commonwealth  

Minister of Defence to report on the  

best position for the Central Naval  

Base and the works necessary to make  

it effective, and upon the positions for  

secondary bases for the service of  

fleet, and what we should, in his  

opinion, do to make them of best ser-  

vice in any naval operations. He was  

also asked to express an opinion as to  

the location and character of the train-  

ing schools for preparing personnel  

for our naval service, to include both  

officers and men and all branches of  

the service, and upon any other naval  

matters upon which he would care  

to express an opinion.  

From the naval point of view Ad-  

miral Henderson was presented with  

blank map of Australia, and asked for  

proposals which would make our island  

continent navaly efficient. Hitherto  

Australia’s value as factor, both in  

the naval defence of herself and -as  

contributor to the sea power of  

Britannia, was purely negative one.  

We were regarded as portion of the  

Empire to which all must be given-  

having nothing of our own —a great  

area to be defended, and large exten-  

sion of the naval responsibilities of the  

Mother Country growing with Austra-  

lia’s development, and wealthier year  

by year, and with the changing naval  

conditions of the Pacific —the rise and  

development of naval battle force there-  

—becoming year by year matter of  

increasing concern. The time had ar-  

rived, and in our opinion was overdue,  

when the actual facts had to b,e faced  

and something attempted to meet them.  

There was double incentive to the  

change in naval conditions in the  

Pacific area. First, our desire, no less  

than our latent ability, to do what our  

manhood and self-respect required  

from citizenship and racial affinity to  

establish an effective naval unit for our  

own protection, and to second that  

movement of the naval centre of  

gravity to the North Sea that has de-  

manded the concentration in those  

waters of almost the entire strength of  

the Royal Navy—a new disposition of  

naval battle force, which has left so  

much less to spare to meet increasing  

risks in the great Pacific area.  

Those were briefly the causes seen  

clearly by the Commonwealth Minister  

of Defence —as they must be distinctly  

obvious to every thoughtful member of  

the Australian Natives’ Association—  

which prompted the invitation to  

Admiral Henderson.  

We have read his report with great  

interest, and commend it as clear,  

practical exposition of the naval situa-  

tion as it affects Australia. It dis-  

plays careful thought, calm delibera-  

tion, patient investigation of everything  

affecting the problem. Admiral Hen-  

derson studied Australia’s needs, not  

like the Downing-strest armchair  

philosophers from remote distance,  

but on the site. He traversed nearly  

the whole of the coast line, visited  

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