UGLY BUSINESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 185, 8 August 1927, Page 7

UGLY BUSINESS.

NAVAL NIGHTMARES. giKoor'e Vigorous Defence Against U.S. Misquotation. BRITAIN BLAMELESS. Ifj Cible-PrcKs Ad^iriarinn.-Copyright.) (tlerri\fil I'.', noon.) LONDON', August 7. "Sil'nco is hardly possible in the arcumstancfs," (l«-»lnro«l Earl Dalfoor when vigorously drfVnding hirafflt in a sjH'cfli Jit, Whittinghame Mr. <iil»M>n's Geneva misquotation. Bβ complHiur.l flint, Mr. flibson had r(prfe»ntrd him as saying at Washingtoe that 4.*>0.000 tons was sufficient to protect the Empire'* commerce. •I only referred to battle fleets and ireeniories. It is a melancholy reflection th»t in one of his loading arguuifntd Mr. fJilwon inadvertently omitted tfe word* which modified the. whole KinM of the quotation and without wbieli my obwrvntionn are capable of ggroM mi»eonce|>tion and gross misuse, to which unhappily they hav« been eub- i jicted. "Th»r» an , «<>ine very lending question* to which I hiivo n<.t found exactly what '■» tho American rrply." Mr. Churchill, speaking at ITanlemcre, aid: "Oiir deK'fraten aro blameless. I |M*p4) ther* will be an early termination el the ujrlr process of swapping naval nightmare*." —(A. and N.Z. and Sydney •Sue.")