NO STORM IN TEACUP

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 66, 19 March 1928, Page 9

NO STORM IN TEACUP

CONDUCT OF ADMIRAL OFFICERS' RESENTMENT (Sydney Sun Cable.) (Received 19th March, 10 ajn.) LONDON, ISth March. Information from a quarter which must bo respected throws some interesting sidelights upon incidents in the social life in the Navy in the Mediterranean, which have gone further than clubrooiu gossip. The suspension of officers is not a storm in a teacup, but the culmination of the long-growing resentment of subordinates at the language the Admiral uses.' They have also resented on several occasions the time, place, and public nature of his remarks on what ho considers the failings of those about him. They maintain that.he has outstripped the bounds in which they are forced by junior rank to bend a silent, respectful ear. . Consequently, they have decided to take advantage of the article in British naval law entitling subordinates ,to make a complaint, after showing the complaint to the man they have, accused. The trouble between Commander Daniel and Admiral C'ollard started on the day the Admiral boarded the Royal Oak. Discipline under all officers is strict on men-o'-war, but there are certain polite conventions, which help to make it endurable. In the first place, captains of ships are not usually reprimanded before the men. It has been known for1 some timo that Admiral Collard's comments on what he considered the conditions of his new flagship, delivered as ho made his first rounds, rocked the ship from stem' to stern.