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 might be embodied, and they would supply the best drill instructors for our reserves which could be obtained. The commissioned officers necessary to command such a force could readily be secured from the Indian army, and at a comparatively light cost, and in a short time we could bring into the field a defence force equal to anything in existence in the other colonies, and quite equal to any emergency South Australia is likely to encounter from the attacks of any of the European naval Powers.