NAVAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 5

NAVAL NEWS.

LOSS' OF THE FORMIDABLE.,

LORD CHARLES BERESFORD'S STRICTURES.

SHIP SENT OUT WITHOUT PROTECTION.

; (Received Jan. 14, 9.4a p.m.) j LONDON, Jan. 14. ! Lord Charles Beresford, in a letter |to the press, says that the Pormid- ; able -was lost unaer conditions the re*-

petition of which after the loss of the Aboukir and Gressy was thought to (i be impossible. In both' cases the ! ships were sent into waters infested by submarines, and they were unprotected by destroyers. Tlho I efficacy of such protection is shown ■ by the fact that submarines were un- ' able to injure the British squadron on the Belgian coast. It was un- ' pardonable that officers and crews should be so exposed.