HOUSE CRITICISES ADMIRALTY METHODS.
LONDON, May 11. In the course of the debate in the House of Commons yesterday on the speech of Mr. A. Btmar Law. Chancellor of the Exchequer, in introducing the vote of credit for £500,000.000, Mr. George Lauiibcrt. who was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1905 to lflh'i. said that the Admiralty Imd .borrowed Uie. Key. Dr. John Clifford's policy of passive resistance. It was merely keeping up a half-hearted blockade of the Gorman coast. Mr. R. P. Houston (Unionist), said that tbe Admiralty had sleeping sickness. It needed good lighting men. Last week three German submarines, on the surface, by gunfire, sank a British ship on the prescribed naval route. Commander ('. Bellairs (L'nionist). declared that when the German rruiser Goebcn was pursued in the early stages of the war, and escaped into the Dardanelles, it. was not brought to an action be-aiiFc the Admiralty telegraphed forbidding the risking of armoured ships. Two Dreadnoughts exhausted their guns' live? nnd took a day to fink the German squadron off the Falkland Islands because a dose action -was not adopted.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 120, 21 May 1917, Page 6
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184HOUSE CRITICISES ADMIRALTY METHODS. Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 120, 21 May 1917, Page 6
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