SUCCESSOR TO LORD FISHER ANNOUNCED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 7

SUCCESSOR TO LORD FISHER ANNOUNCED.

SIR.. H. B. JACKSON APPOINTED FIRST SEA LORD.

ADMIRAL SIR ARTHUR WILSON RETAINED AT ADMIRALTY. London, May 27. It is officially announced that Admiral Sir Henry Brawardine Jackson, late commander- in-chief in the Mediterranean, becomes First Sea Lord of the Admiralty. Admiral Sir Arthur E. Wilson, a former First Sea Lord, remains in the Admiralty in an advisory capacity. Admiral Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson has been detailed on special service since the outbreak of the war. He was previously commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, and for two years before that he occupied the important position of chief of the War Staff. The new First Sea Lord is 60 years of age, being born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, in 1855. He entered the navy in 1868. and during his 47 years' service he has held many distinguished appointments. From 1905 to 1908 he was Controller of the Navy. He was subsequently appointed to the command of the sixth crpiser squadron in the Mediterranean, and 'aeld that position until 1911, when he was appointed to the command of the Royal Naval College. Ho has served on numerous technical committees in connection with the equipment and design of warships. He was the first in England to put to practical use Hertzian waves for wireless telegraphy, and has done much towards introducing, perfecting, and organising it, especially in its early stages, in the British Navy. Admiral Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson was First Sea Lord from 1909 to 1912. When' he retired from the navy in the latter year—having reached the age of 70— had given nearly 57 years of his life to the naval service of his country, a term of sen-ice exceeding that of Lord Fisher by two months. Sir Arthur Wilson commanded the principal fleet in home waters continuously for six years; he filled the office of Third Sea Lord and Controller for three and a-half years, and that of First Sea Lord for nearly two years; he won the Victoria Cross; and he refused a peerage. The occasion on which he won the Victoria Cross and become the "idol of the navy" was at El Teb on February 29, 1884. Under Rear-Admiral Sir William Hewett he was landed in Egypt with a total force of 3800 soldiers, seamen, and marines, and on February 29, 1884, they encountered about 10,000 of the enemy at El Teb. The British forces were arranged in the form of a hollow square, and when a party of men with a Gardner gun advanced out from one corner a body of the enemy at once made a rush for the party and for the. gap they left in the square. Captain Wilson, as he then was, got to the breach first, and began to lay abojt him with his sword. At the second or third thrust the blade snapped off, but with the hilt in his right hand and the tare knuckles of his left he bowled over half a dozen 6pear-armed savages, saved the party, and kept the squaro intact until a body of York and Lancasters came to his support. Sir Redvera Buller described it as the most courageous action ho had ever seen. A strict disciplinarian, Admiral.. Wilson is nevertheless; universally trusted by the whole fleet, and, the navy's opinion of him V well summarised" in"'the nickname— but with yet a touch/of love in it-" Old 'afd 'eart.'V *.' NEWSPAPER'S ACCOUNT OF ADkIIiALTY NEGOTIATIONS. COMPLETE CONTROL DEMANDED BY. LORD FISHER. London, May 27. -•■;-' The Daily Express states that Admiral Lord Fisher intimated that he would only return on hie own terms, namely, the inclusion of his - own nominees in office at the Admiralty and his complete and uhVam^-\' melled control of the department. J .-,:•. ;! Lord Fisher was ordered to return to his post, but did not do so,The public would be wise to withhold its'judgment. The Dardanelles ■'• expedition was inevitable. The first fruits are Italy's .miilioc troops, while Roumania and Greece tremble in the balance. -""-? "W I■■ - ■ _