SEA POWER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 15

SEA POWER.

The master fact of the naval war, says Mr. A. H. Pollen, -is that Britain began the war fully prepared at sea. The Germans can, of course, come out when they like, but when they do so they expose themselves to being cut off. The real power of the Navy, he went on to say, did not lie in immense guns, but in the class of man we had to run it. A naval officer had now to master many special sciences. Seamanship was only one of his accomplishments. His life was one of the greatest possible selfdenial and self-sacrifice, and now that we were face to face with the greatest crisis in our history we could not do better than follow his noble example. "In ships and guns we hold a dominating superiority, which is steadily increasing—a fact whiqh rules the whole naval situation. In the last resort, observation of fire must be the guarantee and means of accurate firing. When ships' guns are opposed to concealed fortifications on shore observation is very difficult, hence the necessity of an army in the Gallipoli Peninsula.','