DEFENCE OF PACIFIC.

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9800, 9 May 1924, Page 6

DEFENCE OF PACIFIC.

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CAPITAL SHIPS STILL NECESC ' U SARY,

WELLINGTON, May &• Admiral Field, incut luncheon '■ ei , t j lo jjonie W ‘KTSdShI not “o 1..0-(J„vmmc» (J„vmmc»t l„ s o at piecoed 'Mill the ’- = L Zealand votsent, it was no ose but in i»S mul ' C T- ni ; he had endeavored to the meantime K e of making emphasise tLe n 1 tectiou of the provision ioi tl '; J' v , a tors hv adding trade routes pi these Zealand ».•«** rJllfltohl fe,C v toon at division or the > romot iug and enpossiblc, theicbj 1 t j lo factor ot Lancing efficient- \ ■ possibility of oo.npoW.on, anJ ' V , mp&iill « clim,S “ 1 " uLoffili ultimately ap at^otSton^o , * .on o" tl.roo om.tors no »-« ,„leleast lUimbci m.cts. } loll tes in qaate protecaoi et ift gener al time or trouble. - s hould keep was that each Lominui s UP a sufficient cmitlnuroutes, thcieli.v - ~ face of the a nee of eomuieiee ~ the enemy, commerce »““ k -" arf lhe “‘ilhSr“RoVMmue.l: ,11.™ ‘»i“ “VVVirSL^oSf.' „ f tmulmly m tic Wat and aeroplanes, and r fmild is waste of money lo cunt- w ■> a capital ships. I need not sap I di»_ a.rree with this view. 11 a mn.d y b r decides to maintain -submarines only, the opposing power cou.d u -> e-isilv and at small expense const net 4 ' * J i .p hi.rl, -sneed shallow h number ot hign suecu draught anti-snbma, me vesse s, t - with, the latest detecting ‘-Vi * ' , and special offensive weapons aga st subnuuines. in ibis way it ,oud nracticallv limit the operations oi the submarine to n comparatively innocuous range. The power wiueh p n its trust in submarine* would then be compelled to adopt a type of Slid ace vessel larger and with greater offensive powers than its opponent possessed ' Thus ti e process would cmniini untU they again arrived at the capital liemuxliim acreolanes, he pointed mu "that these vere mainly effective in narrow seas, which loft all other trade routes totally unprotected from attack hv commerce destroying cruisers.—P.A.