SOME ADVERSE VIEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 5

SOME ADVERSE VIEWS.

(Received January 25, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, January 24.

Lord Inverclyde, addressing the shipowners' association at Glasgow, asked whether the Government's desii'e to ratify the Declaration of London was not equivalent to an admission that the navy was unable to protect the trade routes. Admiral Wilson was too sanguine regarding the impossibility of invasion. Britain was entitled to command the sea commercially, and the navy must be equal to any necessity. Admiral Fremantle condemns the Declaration, believing that none of the signatories would observe it in wartime. The International Court could have no power to enforce its decision. He is also of opinion that the new blockade rules would much hamper British naval commanders.