 Complete the following phrase:  Following the outbreak of war Australian forces moved quickly to reduce the threat to shipping posed by the proximity of Germanys Pacific colonies. The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force ANMEF, a 2000-man volunteer forceseparate from the AIFand consisting of an infantry battalion plus 500 naval reservists and ex-sailors, was rapidly formed under the command of Colonel William Holmes. The objectives of the force were the wireless stations on Nauru, and those at Yap in the Caroline Islands, and at Rabaul in German New Guinea. The force reached Rabaul on 11 September 1914 and occupied it the next day, encountering only brief resistance from the German and native defenders during 