No. 2 - Military Training for our Schoolboys
Subtitle: Addresses, 1909
By: Imperial Federation League of Australia
Published: April, 1909
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
First sentence: The Commonwealth of Australia lies so remote from the two centres of the world's greatest activities that those distant regions can have only imperfect conceptions of the facts and conditions of Australia and its white inhabitants —a race far from faultless; but a fine race, physically and mentally vigorous, fitting descendants of their forefathers, who went out with their lives in their hands to subdue the wilderness, and to make habitable places of the desert and the swamp.