THE JUTLAND REPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17623, 9 November 1920, Page 5

THE JUTLAND REPORT.

! DEMAND FOR PUBLICATION. j ATMOSPHERE OF SUSPICION. J , , LONDON. Oct 28. A special article in the Times dealing i with the battle of Jutland condemns the l refusal to publish the official account of I the battle, for the first reason that bv this i refusal the Navy i a being deprived of the greatest opportunity of learning how to ; fight, and secondly, that when shipbmld--1 ln « programmes are on the brink of revolu- ; tionary changes the country is prevented i from studying the only battle where | Dreadnoughts fought, and where great ; destroyer attacks were made on them ; Admiral Lord Beatty and Admiral Lord , Jellicoe represent two sdiools of thought I as wide as the Poles asunder, and their officers have won an almost equal number of decorations. The article instant a fleet-surgeon who received the D.S 6 for his arrangements with regard to the treat ment of the wounded. It is now disclosed that there was not a single wounded man on his ship. " Such facts," states the article "accompanied by the conceal ; ment of the official story of the battle ' ma , e the very worst of impressions on the public

" There is no demand tor a court : martial in connection with Jutland " coni tinues the writer. " bet there is a growi ing atmosphere of suspicion that the gen- : eral conduct of the battle was bad for the , country and its trust in the N'avv How- ; ever painful it may be. the onlv wav to re- ! establish confidence in the Navy and safe j guard the future is fearlessly to" reveal the I fact*, and allow the public" to judge." ! The Daily Mai! publishes a leading arj tide headed. " The Jutland Hush-up.'' to • which the paper has incessant!-.- referred ; l ate ' v - It now definitely accuses Admiral ; Lord Jellicoe of having prolonged the war ; for two vears by- turning a wav from th° beaten German fleet, which was half his strength, and which was placed id his hands by the gallant fight of Admiral Lord Beat v.

; Colonel Sir James Craig. Financial Peci retary to the Admiralty, informed VisI count- Curzon (Coalition-Unionist j, in the. ' Hoa*e of Commons, that it was not proj posed to publish the official account of I the Battle of Jutland, but all the evidence ! prepared by the Admiralty would be m- ! corpora ted in a volume by Sir Julian ■ Stafford Corbett, Director of the- historical I section of the Committee of Imperial I Defence, which weald be published nest 1 Tear, i"