NAVAL ENQUIRY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1909, Page 7

NAVAL ENQUIRY.

A FAIR COMMITTEE. jj ADMIRAL BERESFORD'S VIEWS. \ CAUSE FOR DISSATISFACTION £ BUT NOT PANIO^ By Telegraph. — Frets Association. — Copyrigh £ , (Received May 10, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON," 9th Mayt Admiral Lord Charles Beresfci ,-d, speaking at the Liverpool Town Fj ill, , after receiving the degree of Doctor of Laws, said the Committee on K£ a,val Defence, now sitting, was as fair a fr committee as had ever been summone 1 [ before. If the members of that com' a littee found that things were not as ? they should be — which he had no doul i t they would — there would be no neces city for panic or recrimination. " ' "Let us," said the Admiral, /"return to the old British style — lay tl i c whole thing on the table, look at it, ; *;e where it is wrong, and calmly and qijfietly put it right, without, recriminatiim from*, parties or individuals." In another speech at the JSouthport* Physical Training College, I^prd Beresford said he had great fa^'iLh in Mr. Asquith's committee. Ther b would be many points in regard to tha Navy destined to become public an 3 cause dis satisfaction, but let them pbury party, , get together, and put things right. Nos< party wanted to see the foreigner here. He did not belong to tifle party in power, but Ministers w<^re taking a-, national view of naval af Jiirs, and anything he could do to b*jlp them he . would, to the best of hi $ ability. I "What has happened is," said Lord* Charles, "that we hat pi deferred oiuH liabilities and obligat'tms, and when.; an individual or a na tiion does that it; must get money somev(/here to put him- : self or itself right." i [The committee — inj wnich Admiral ; Beresf ord expresses, c nnfidence — appointed to enquire into na ral matters consists | of Mr. Asquith, Sir fSdward Gray, Lord Crewe, Mr. Haldane^ and Lord Morley.]j-