SEA POWER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3976, 8 July 1915, Page 5

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, ot 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, didmot lie in immense guns, hut 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 liis accomplishments. His life was one of the greatest possible self-denial and selfsacrifice, 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. ‘Tn ships and guns we hold a dominating superiority, which is steadily increasing—a fact, which 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 sliove observation is very difficult, hence the necessity of an army in the Gallipoli Peninsula.”