CENSOR’S SECRETS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 300, 21 November 1918, Page 4

CENSOR’S SECRETS.

NEARLY LOST THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. SOUTH AFRICA SAVED BY FRIENDLY NATION. (Received 20, 8.40 a,in.) London, Nov. 19. At a meeting of the Empire Parliamentary Association. Mr. Walter Long’s motion was cairied congratn.Lating the Dominion Parliaments that by the sustained self-sacrificing heroism of the Navies and Armies of the British Commonwealth and the Allies, the gigantic military autocracy had been for ever overthrown! and the triumphs of the Parliamentary Government had b«m achieved. . • . Mr. Harcourt, in seconding th© motion, referred to th? fact that we had not lost a single colony, although we were within twenty-four hours of losing the Falkland Island®. - There was gr&ve danger in South Africa early in the war The rebels got away with half the Union Government’s war materials. When we ; turned to Earl Kitchener for help to replenish the supplies, Earl Kitchener replied that he would not de- , Slete this country of a single rifle. [■r. Harcourt added: “But in a friendly country he found what was wanted. Sfiips were loatfed and sent i to Africa in sixteen daya. That Wa s the most critical period South Africa had ever undergone.” The Association contemplates.inviting delegations of Oversea® Parliamentaries to come to England next year, ttud probably see the historic battlefields of France.-<A. and N.Z.) JUTLAND BATTLE PERSIUS REVEALS THE TRUTH MISTY WEATHER SAVES GERMANS FROM DISASTEIt Received 21; 9.4 b a.m.) Copenhagen, Nov. 19. Captain Persius, in # the “Tageblatt, makes sensational revelations. He says that only-misty wjea- w ther -and Von. Schier’s good leaaership saved the whole of the from' destruction # stt Skagerrack’* otherwise the British w lon® range* guns would have- smashed, up the fighter Geasman-flnipß J a» it was the German - lossea were enormous. By the beginning of' 1918, twenty-three battlehips were disarmed, owing", to the scarcity of metal, and by the beginning of 1918 only dreadnoughts and 'battle-cruisers remained. Me rest were destroyed and the metal taken. . THE U-BOAT FAILURE. Eighty-three submarines 'were ednstructea in 1917, of which 66 were destroyed. .In October, 1917, tiermany had 146 submarines,. and in June, 1918,- 113, but only about 12 per cent were actively engaged. Thirty per cent of the submarines ■ were in. harbour, 38 per bent we»v' undergoing repairs, an 1 20 per cent were incapacitated. The crews were insufficiently trained and -it was very difficult to get men in the last months. I The seamen regarded the submarine campaign as political stupidity. When the was ordered out for a second Skagerrack, mutiny broke out. ■ If .the seamen had obeyed innumerable J 1 '™ a would have been lost. —(A. and N. Z-> ——