The advance Australia

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N 059.4 ADV
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Melbourne : F. Davison, 1897-
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Vol. 12 No. 09 (15 Sep 1908)
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THE  

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA  

Registered At the General Post Offloe, Melh.  

for transmission by Post as Newspaper  

VOL. XII., No. 9.  

SEPT. 15, 1908.  

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our great organisation. We will, therefore, gladly  

receive and insert them if space-will- permit.  

SEA POWER THE BASIS OF  

AUSTRALASIAN DEFENCE.  

“ Our very national existence was in  

yearly—in hourly peril.”—Northcote.  

“With navy, no enemy could get to  

you.”—Sperry.  

Sixteen battleships have come and  

gone. They came at our invitation,  

and we endeavoured by the cordiality  

of our reception to show them the  

place in our hearts occupied by the  

kinsfolk who so kindly sent them here  

at our invitation. We asked them here  

as relations— they left us as friends.  

amplified, or, as the phrase goes, “ writ  

large.” The unknown cousin of whom  

the family has heard much, but never  

met or known, arrives on visit, and  

fulfils all anticipations; in fact, exceeds  

them, The family make much of him,  

and —little wonder, it is human weak-  

ness —show him off to their neighbours.  

Human enough, too, if we are pleased  

to show the other nations of the world  

that we have powerful and distin-  

guished connections, with whom we  

are on such agreeable terms. Perhaps  

the reader will at this point, with native  

impatience of what has been almost  

daily reiterated by the daily press, cry  

mercy. Socially, politically, commer-  

cially, and from every other aspect, we  

have heard the visit discussed. What  

we of Australia are mostly concerned  

to know is, How does this affect the  

main, the vital, question—the reten-  

tion of Australia by its proportionately  

small population? Second only to that,  

viz., to the question of the continuance  

of our national existence, comes the  

question of freedom from serious mo-  

lestation, for people or land may,  

though unconquered, be harried to  

within an ace of its existence. Briefly,  

if sixteen battleships in Australian  

waters means that the possibilities of  

our losing Australia are increased, or  

if it shows no more than that the do-  

mination of our coastal trade routes —  

.pafljitjl tc....0.  

simple matter, then we of the Austra-  

lian Natives’ Association are faced with  

condition of things of paramount ur-  

gency.  

It is certain that ten, or even five,  

years ago the idea that sixteen battle-  

ships would be in Port Jackson or Port  

Phillip would have been scouted.  

Glancing for moment at the view of  

our position when the first Australian  

Parliament was convened, we see it  

officially stated that no part of the  

world is so happily distant from any  

possibility of molestation in war as  

Australia. It is not that we suffer from  

nerves, and of this we may offer proof  

later on. but perhaps our sensibilities  

are quicker or slightly in advance of  

those of the orthodox authorities. The  

man living under glass roof, though  

far from public thoroughfare, will be  

more likely to note the numbers and  

characters of chance passers-by than  

the dweller under slate roof in the  

centre of the city. When some years  

later it was suggested that, in the ab-  

sence of the Australian squadron we  

needed some defence, and Australia  

was prepared to furnish it, the idea was  

pooh-poohed, and the extent of our  

danger, we were assured, would not  

exceed four unarmoured cruisers and  

raiding force of 1000 men. On the  

whole, this estimate of our risk, had it  

been possible of acceptance, would  

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