CAUSE OF THE INACTIVITY.

Grey River Argus, 12 June 1915, Page 2

CAUSE OF THE INACTIVITY.

LET THE GERMANS COME OtfT,

HIDING- BEHIND MINE-FIELDS

LONDON, June 10. Commander Carlyon Bellairs, replying to K criticisms in the United States papers on the inactivity of the British Navy, said: "The man who wrote them ought to procure a chart and study it for a few minutes with an Ameiican naval officer at his elbow. He then might learn a lot. Cuxhaven and Kiel .ire hidden behind miles of heavily mined sand-banks and a breakwater. At Heligoland there are only a few German torpedo boats and submarines. In naval warfare one goes by probabilities, not possibilities. A British submarine would not have one chance in a million of getting beyond the stonewalls where the Germans hide their fleet. It is not a question of inactivity. What our submarines have done in scouting around. Heligoland and the Dardanelles proves this. It is just a question .of common sense tactics. The German fleet only needs to come to sea" and leave its stone fortress for a few hours to get all the trouble it will ever be able to seek."