BRITISH NAVAL MANŒUVRES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10408, 23 July 1912, Page 5

BRITISH NAVA L MANŒUVRES.

LORD BBKBSFOKD’S ADVICE

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. s London, *Jn!y 22.

Daring manoeuvres, the fleet ondfii Pdnoe Louie of Battenfaarg defe&ted Vice-Admiro! Callaghan's attack. Prince' Henry's licet ' outiinmbarad the enemy by two to one. ViceAdmiral Ord'iaghan succeeded in landing 30,G0G imaginary troopers in Yorkshire. broke through the North Sea cordon, preyed on the Atlantic commerce, and lost sis battleships, two cruisers, and the greater part of the mosquito flotilla, as against Prince Henry of BaUecberg's two cruisers and 24 mosquito vessels. Lord Eisreafqrd, in a letter to the press, emphasises the necessity of securing the food supply against panic by the establishment of granaries and the equip*' ent of, certain merchantmen in the trade routes with guns and trained gunners, increased garrisons and armament at Malta, Gibraltar and Egypt, and the reinforcement of the existing active fleet. Ha points out that only 123 ous of 223 ships engaged in the present manoeuvres are reafly efficient for an emergency. Lord Charles Beresford also urges a strong Mediterranean fleet and a force r.f ornisars on the ’trade routes. He adds that the efficiency of the overseas heln cannot be estitaated until Britain knows what form of help the Dominions will' select