THE BRITISH NAVY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10206, 17 February 1919, Page 5

THE BRITISH NAVY

LORD JBLLIOOE'B STRICTURE*. MANYioMP^jMN^^^VIO. •■ 'There are many complaints in ber+1 h c IXI re £ ardin E catalogue ot Admiralty deficiency shown in Lord. Jellicoe's book. . . - Jellicoe It is pointed out that Jjora •> eilL \ „tl director of Naval Ordnance be--7 JrwffmA 1907, and the «nmunitto S not har/e become baa Lord Jellicoe's reference to the burstKf tie German shells indites the improvement between the Battle «* Heligoland Bight and the Battle ot * • *lt was characteristic of teS;:.to improve their material after "experience. The large body o! opinion in the fleet was opposed tc the use of searchlishte. as they, would reveal'the positions of the ships. Lord Jellicoe complains of the auahtv ol ,-ffie searchlights, but he could- have. secured'starshells if he had asked for them. Similarly, he could have had .submarines equipped He might have foreseen, while Controller of the Navy, from 1908 to 1910, the defects which resulted in the loss" ot the Indefatigable, and the , Queen rterK" v Afc T Secdnd Sea, Lord .trom 1912 to 1914 he could have remedied .the defencelessness of Scapa ittow, and he could also have made any demands upon the Admiralty when he assumed command. The German accuracy" of firij at Jutland was probably : ' duo to exceptional training in markTheir fire control was less complicated. than that of the —UfttUli ships-'-.,:- ...-' """ '■.;""' ■ i .''°'' r ' ** w '""' > '"- ••'■■■'• REASON FOR BRITISH IN-' ~ '■;■■';.: FERIORTTY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ■p--:, ..:-:.,,-,:.,.L0ND0N, Fobniary 14~,«*.' It is asserted that, at about the timo jvhen Lord_ Jellicoe, in the Jutland battle, headed his battleships frottr the-enemy in order to avoid; a school of; torpedoes, Admiral Beatty signalled the nearest battleship of the division the suggestion that Admiral Jellicoe should" follow" lilM. to annihilate the' enemy. ' Lord Jellicoe*,"in a brief reply to critics, says that when he was at tlie Admiralty prior to the war, he constantly informed the Government of the Navy's needs. It was a question of monoy. Germany had a superior armour-piercing- shell because she had the necessary steel.