THE NAVY LEAGUE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9504, 3 May 1911, Page 5

THE NAVY LEAGUE.

A LETTER FROM CAPT. : CRUTCIILEY. THE. GRAND OLD CROSS . OF ST. . . GEORGE. . liv tho. course of a letter"receivtil. by Mr 0. Palmer, secretary ot the, Nary .League, .Wellington, from Cap!. Crutclilev, ..London, conveying his appreciation of the presentation made ■liini. : ; : :from.','ithe. New Zealand branch.: secretaries-jof-tlie' Navy League, the' wi'iter '.states'that' supporters of the . League in New Zealand can justly claim to have done things. He added that lie had...noticed that the Premier, while in" Sydney, had spoken ; plainly on the matter of Imperial Defence, and Capt; Orutchlov thinks that tho. fact that Now Zealand has taken.. }.o | loading a. part in this great problem is. due.' in a' great measure to tho League work carried oiibyMr-Palmcr and his associates. They had.educated thinking people in navalmatters,aiii;' the fruit.of the labour.was now seen.. Capt, Crutchley expressed the opinion that there is . great trouble in tho near: future. _ "i,o()k which way oner may, there is only one encouraging; sign, and that is that Britons', one amf all, have made up their, minds to stand or fall together." ■; He, for one, 'be~. lieyed they would not:fall ''in the .day of. Amniageddon,. at the last great, fight of all." "There were." he add-, ed. "a great many cranks and fad-r dists in this country, but it is .sound at heart, and il we take counsel with' our. kinsmen oversea and work to-gether-then- is nor the. power in existence that can lower the grand c'.l. cross of St. George."