"£18,060,000 WASTED."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14347, 12 July 1917, Page 3

"£18,060,000 WASTED."

STRAIGHT TALK BY BRITISH ■■■■: '■-■ admir-Vl; M !

"A serious iiiid' 'disagreeable danger,'' was the description .']givpn to tlie submarine menace' by- Admiral of the Fleet Sir Hodworfch. 'Meux, • who' was'- tlie principal speaker< at -the* annual meeting hejd m Liverpool of the Mercantile Marine Service 0 Association.* „ -'.lii* the: course o_ his speech he said that for the first nine months, -pf -the .war-;- we were told-.tlW submarine menace was well •m hand. "We 11 ,,-. 0;f!/-coui*se, -there/ was not-, a*. -word of. truth m iti" conjinbhted* Sir :Hocl-yyor-h. .; There -.."were ' 'very few :■■ submarines, .and- -they- were' hot' ii'rdiand the follO/tt-ihg* year,' 'and 'he ' was sorry T to 'say they were not' ''in hand:' how. -.But what did the Admiralty ,'of the .day do?. ! It "•was /'true ; *they ''huiit a ./-few- v destroyed Snd a ( few* submarines, but /they ' ,alp 4' wasted -something / like £iS,OOQ,<XX) on .Building ihi. most ridiculous,. , .. crackbrained big ships that ever entered': the' , mind of J-^mortal man 5 ,* -ships ' some : 700 feet; long; Spmethfri'gi' HkO -30,000 : 'i}6ns, lyi-h'"^ ; _ew ( big giihs and .'no, w'ihor. ,If tli^y had nbt /wasted 'the money .{in.. 'time* !<jh. ,thp.s§ ship, they iioidd . liavfe' built, at leaifc "■ anotlifer. ,100 • . destroyers, which would, have placedl His iff>a very-ihuclj. better way vthan/we were, at present., It» •was no';use. / 'pretending> that' there- could Over, he- a - - complete 1 remedy 'for the suij-maa-iney danger. The only-wayhi which .hei^menaCe/ t"6=his ' hviridj' * -could be Chiefly alleviate^. yr as 'to 'try -hs \far as pOssißle^y-hiclx 'he! had no doubt ithe Acj^ira-fcy. was "doing-^-to block the submarine's into their own harbors.