BRITAIN’S NAVAL BASES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11696, 16 October 1916, Page 5

BRITAIN’S NAVAL BASES.

PLAGES OF WONDER.

DOMINION PRESSMEN’S VISIT. United Service. .Received Oct. 26. 9.15 a.m. London, Oct. 15. The Admiralty has arranged for a party of Dominion pressmen to visit rhe naval bases of the Grand Fleet. The trip commenced on Saturday at the southern base where there arsextensively conducted dockyards, workshops, intense activity in naval and commercial shipbuilding and all manner of wonderful defensive and offensive craft. Many women are employed at lathes and other lighter machines, showing that the Admiralty is fully using female labour where it could not be imagined to be employed before the war. They - were also shown a leviathan battle cruiser, the latest thing in naval science, giving an overwhelming impression of strength and power combined with the greatest speed and with monster guns. We found the, ofliceis and men of tbe navy keen and alert. Whatever the Huns may have achieved at Kiel and Bremerhaveu in construction, they can never produce seamen equal to these.