ADMIRAL REBUKED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 124, 24 April 1940, Page 9

ADMIRAL REBUKED.

COMMENT ON U.S. POLICY. WASHINGTON, April 23. Admiral Stark (Chief of Naval Operations) emphasised that Rear-Admiral Taussig, in his reference to tile Far East, was speaking on his own responsibility. He added that his views were contrary to .those of the Navy Department. The Secretary of State (Mr Hull) also in effect reprimanded RearAdmiral Taussig, stating that the Government had a well-defined foreign policy and no one outside the State Department was authorised to discuss it. It is informatively stated that Major G. F. Eliot (the military writer who yesterday advocated an agreement between America and Australia) is a native of New York who went 1o Australia with his parents at the age of eight. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces in the Great War and participated in actions at the Dardanelles and on the West Front. He was commissioned as a major in the United States Army Reserve Corps in 1925.

Rear-Admiral Taussig, formerly Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, testifying before tho Senate Naval Affairs' Committee. expressed the opinion that Japan would not attempt to take tile Philippine Islands, French Indo-China, or the Netherlands Indies. As a commander, Rear-Admiral .T. C. Taussig was senior officer of the first six United States destroyers that crossed tho Atlantic in April, 1917, and joined Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly’s command at Queenstown. Taussig commanded the Wadsworth, the other ships being Davis, Porter, McDougall, Conyngham and Wainwright. Taussig was an old friend of Lord Jellicoe, having been wounded in the Boxer Rebellion campaign in China in 1900 as an ensi"n, when by chance he had been a hospital mate with Captain Jellicoe.