THE BRITISH NAVY
DISCIPLINARY MEASURES MINISTERIAL EXPLANATION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 24. Replying to a Labour demand in the House of Commons that twenty-four men who were dismissed from the Navy following the Invergordon trouble should have a fuller trial, the. First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell) explained that the dismissals were not due to participation in the Invergordon incident, but to subsequent action subversive to discipline. Ho added that the Navy realised that to-day it no longer occupied the very high position in the heart of the British public that it held in past centuries, but it was the earnest desire of every officer and man to regain that esteem as soon as possible, and it would be regained more quickly if the House of Commons and the country would leave the Navy alone to deal with its own domestic affairs. (Cheers.)
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Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 9
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146THE BRITISH NAVY Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 9
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