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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17633, 9 December 1922, Page 11

The "Saturday Review," in an anuwing article, ridicules the Admiralty's plea that the famous battle-eiuker Lion cannot be preserved as an historical memorial, because she is mentioned' as one of the ships to be scrapped by Great Britain in the Treaty of Washington. It says: "What on earth had the Washington Conference or the Washington Treaty got to do with any such proposal as this? It was the live Lion that we agreed to scrap, not a stuffed Lion! Nobody has suggested that we should keep the Lion, in order to,commemorate the part it played in the Great War, among the 'capital chips' which are to remain the bulwark of our defences. If the Lion is preserved as a national memorial it will bo ou the same sort of footing as the Victory, our o!d permissible relic of Nelson's great days, and it will be 'scrapped' for fighting purposes just as effectually by being kept on exhibition in its toothless old age, under conditions appropriate to a venerable relic, as by being broken up and sold for the value of the metal of which' it ia constructed." '" .