ADMIRALTY APOLOGY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 514, 22 May 1909, Page 5

ADMIRALTY APOLOGY.

1 CONCERNING A .LETTER., REFLECTING ON LIEUT. BELLAIRS.- ✓ - "I'RIVATELY CIRCULATED." (nTTBWOKAPa-JifSSS ASSOCIATION—OOrittIGjrr.) London, May 20. The Admiralty has printed and privately circulated V letter by Captain. Bacon reflect-: iilg on Lieutenant Carlyon Bellaira's capability as an officer.-... ■ The document; was made public after Lieujtanant Bellairs had made attacks on the Admiralty in tho House and in various publications. In tho House of Commons, Mr. M'Kenna, First Lord of tho Admiralty, is nightly hcckled on tho subject, and has apologised on behalf of himself and Sir John Fisher, tho First Sea Lord. • .' [As scoretary of the Liberal Navy Committee in the House of Commons, Lieut. Cnrlyon Bollairs, though a Liberal) has Vcn a frequent critic of Admiralty policy. At a meeting last March at Charing, Gross, under the auspices of tlio Navy League ho was tho mover of tho proposal that. oi&ht Dreadnoughts should-' bo begun and, comploted at tho earlio6t possiblo (in! G. Subsequently it was/announced that tho .Liberal party organisation had cipdllod hifii. Lieut. Bellairs thon obtained, at a meeting nof. his King's Lynn constituents, a unanimous solution of confidence,- which declarod that the anxiety ill tho country and tho iJmoire regarding iv>vhl siipreir.noy had proved his warnings to be right, and that ho Had earned tho gratitude'of his countrytneu-l.