LORD FISHER'S REVELATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15041, 16 October 1919, Page 3

LORD FISHER'S REVELATIONS.

PIQUANT STORIES OF THE WAR

HOW THE QUEEN ELIZABETH ESCAPED.

Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.. ■Australian and N.Z. Cable As~uciatluu'.i LONDON, October 14. Lord Fisher ? in his memoirs of the war published in the .Times, tells piquant i stories of the war. The gigantic conception of an invasion of Germany through the Baltic with three armies, including Russian, following aii immense fleet, dominated him while at the Admiralty. He still insists this would have ended the waa* in 1915. At the War Councils Lord Fisher says he was the only naval representative oppoaed to the' Dardanelles operations,! but he adds: "I oacked Winston! Churcliill because he had courage and ' imagination." Lord Fisher eventually resigned because he could not stand the lying by which the Dardanelles operations were kept going. He scoffs at the official spokesman ( who ludicrously asserted that the Turks were coming to tlie last round of ammunition. Lord Fisher admits that there woa frequent tenscon in those days between himself and Lord Kitchener. He delivered an ultimatum one day to Lord [ Kitchener that if the Queen Elizabeth j was not withdrawn from the Dardanelles he would leave the Admiralty next day. Luckily she d.d leave, for a submaiine which had been prowling round for a fortnight looking for her tliat night blew up her woodien dummy, thinking she had got her. Lord Fisher hints that at one time there iwas a big scheme to "polish off" every soul on Heligoland and the surrounding fleet by a deadly poison gas. He describes Lord Kitchener as a great man, but also as a great deception, inasmuch as he was a great commissariat officer, but he was no Napoleon or iloitke. He was .a Car not in excelsiw, but a facile dupe in regard to his own failings.