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...anchor in the South Pacific lay the little Australian destroyer Torrens last week. Three-quarters of a mile away Australia's two capital ships, the 10,000-ton cruisers Australia and Canberra, steamed in line of battle, decks cleared for action. Gunnery officers and navigators worked their range finders and slide rules, scribbled calculations. The eight eight-inch guns of the Australia fired a deafening broadside, the Canberra followed with her main battery. Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried...
Acting Prime Minister Fenton and Acting Treasurer Lyons had called a party caucus in Canberra to approve the Government's program of cutting expenditures, raising taxes and paying off by conversion $135,000,000 in loans which fall due next month. The first two items of this program passed, but then the "wild men" gained control, stampeded through the caucus a resolution respecting the $135,000,000 loans which Acting Treasurer Lyons vainly denounced as "simply repudiation...
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Commonwealth, at Canberra, this fourth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and thirty, and in the twentieth year of His Majesty's reign...
...Canberra last week Australian canaries were beginning to feel the pinch of singing on Australian seed instead of the imported sort to which they have been used. The embargo on chutney, peanut butter, cigarets and wine means that "Major Grey's Chutney," "BeechNut Peanut Butter," "Abdullah Cigarets" and "Mumm's Cordon Rouge" are totally excluded from Australia. It is not a question of scaling a tariff wall. This is an absolute embargo: "Peanut butter shall not pass!" The exclusion is as rigid against products of Mother England as against those of the U. S. or China...
...this embargo all. Last week the Prime Minister, who is also Commonwealth Treasurer (he has been called "The Snowden of Canberra"), made his budget speech. He began by announcing that the Commonwealth Treasury has a deficit of £14,000,000 ($68,000,000). Then, leaning from the rostrum tense and resolute he said, displaying a sheaf of papers: "I have in my hand a new table of tariffs, the most sensational in the history of the Commonwealth...