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also to approve of the service on the flotilla of such officers 
of the Royal Navy as may be mutually agreed to for service 
as Instructors and Specialist officers and to receive officers 
of the local flotilla for instruction at the torpedo, gunnery, 
and other schools in the United Kingdom ; 
(12) Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to be asked 
to give opportunities from time to time for officers and men 
specially selected by the Commonwealth being attached to 
battle fleets ortorpedo flotillas in European waters for special 
Instruction, the expense to be borne by Commonwealth ; and 
(13) For special facilities to be given, by arrangement with 
the Naval Commander-in-Chief on the Australian Station, 
for the vessels of the flotilla being exercised in conjunction 
with the ships of the Royal Navy on the Australian Station, 
subject to the command of such combined exercises being 
held by the Naval Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy 
on the Australian Station. 
In concluding his memorandum, Prime Minister assures 
me that Commonwealth Government would highly appreciate 
the receipt, at earliest possible moment, of the views of His 
Majesty’s Government on the foregoing proposals. —DUDLEY. 
This was followed by an invitation from the Secretary 
of State to the Governor-General and Governors of the 
Dominions. sent in a telegram of April 30. 19091: — 
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as President 
of the Imperial Conference, has desired me to ask you to 
convey the following message to the Prime Minister of [the 
Commonwealth of Australia] [the Dominion of New Zealand] 
[Cape Colony] [Newfoundland]. 
‘It will, no doubt, be within your knowledge that on 
March 29 the Canadian House of Commons passed a 
Resolution to the following effect :— 
Resolution begins : That this House fully recognizes the 
duty of the people of Canada as they increase in numbers and 
wealth to assume in larger measure the responsibilities of 
National Defence. 
"The House is of opinion that, under the present constitu- 
tional relations between the Mother Country and the self- 
governing Dominions, the payment of regular and periodical 
sontributions to the Imperial Treasury for naval and military 
purposes would not, so far as Canada is concerned, be the 
most satisfactory solution of the question of defence. 
t Parl. Pap., Cd. 4948, pp. 5-7.