BRITAIN IN WAR TIME.
AS IN DAYS OF OLD. THE NAVY VISITED. MILES OF GREAT SHIPS. Air H. Campbell Jones (managing editor of The Sun), in an interview for the Evening Standard, referred to tho country as seen under the influence of war. and observed that Britain was within measureable ■ distance of feeding, herself. She was again becoming the land of peasant proprietors, and the yeomen and the ■bowman of old are being reincarnated. The women as much as the men are saving the Empire in the fields as well as the factories. Describing the naval spectacle Mr Campbell Jones said; “One pictures not a number of great ships, but miles of great ships. Probably £500,000,000 worth of vessels was spread before one’s eyes. AVhat do we owe to the British taxpayer, who provides nine-tenths of this outlay. The officers and men of the navy are chips of the old block, and youth has its way right through the commands. Of ‘dugouts’ none are seen on the sea.” _______
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4970, 10 September 1918, Page 7
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