NVINCIBLE WAS NOT INVINCIBLE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7038, 28 January 1910, Page 1

NVINCIBLE WAS NOT INVINCIBLE

. SAYS LORD C. BERESFORD ; I BIG GUNS COULD NOT HAVE ; . BiiJiN FIRED. ■ , HASTY CHANGES ORDERED. By,Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 26. . ' Admiral Lord Charles . Beresford, senior M.P. for Portsmouth,- in a speech at Dartford, Kent, . said " that if the first-class cruiser Invincible had been, commissioned last March (when she -was supposed to be completed) she would never have been able to fire her. 12-inch guns if she -were threatened. The Invincible was ordered into dock and her'crew was transferred to another ship.

LORD FISHER'S WORK NAVY'LEFT IN FIRST-CLASS ORDER. BERLIN, January 26. Count Reventlow, the German naval expert,'in an article in the "Deutsche Tageszeitumg," states that Lord Fisher, late First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty, has left to his successor a fleet prepared in the fullest measure for war, and also fully equal to future requirements. AUSTRALIAN CREWS : TO BRING OUT -< rJW TORPEDOBOAT DESTROYERS. MELBOURNE, January 27. . Mr Joseph Cook, Minister for Defence, has decided to, send Home Australian crews to bring out the new destroyers now being built. , . . WHAT KRTJPFS CAN DO SHOULD BE LEFT A MATTER OF UNCERTAINTY. BERLIN, Januaty"26. The naval correspondent of the "Hamburger Nachrichten " recom-mends-secrecy regarding the potential output of the KruppAVorks at Essen: Uncertainty in this respect/ says the writer, is favourable to Germany,

inasmuch as an enemy would be unable to calculate the number of battleships liltely to' be added to the German fleet before the war reached a decisive stage.