THE JUTLAND BATTLE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11763, 25 February 1919, Page 5

THE JUTLAND BATTLE.

jfIIEBE CRITICISM'OF JELLICDE. jIOBIOUS OPPORTUNITY LOST. BY HIS OWN DEFENCE .. j press* Association—By Eletrie Telegraph- Copyright. London, February 23. .Jmiral Fremantle, in a letter to * A Press joins in the criticism ot & 3 , Tplllcoe for not [closing in on at Jutland when he met hundred miles from the '"“man base with au over whelming i er Sity. Admiral Fremantle would not have wast i time in forming a line of battle, f «ntild never have lost sight of Lord Jellicoe lest his e i„ His book is full of excuses. ■ Tula in truth is that Lord Jelhthough a good officer, is not a *2 Mliom His own defence Inins him. The annihilatioa of German Fleet in 1916 would ,obably have ended the war.” JZBERGES. taken to task. EVICTED OF DOUBLE DEAL'I ING. Paris, February 22. Government’s official reply .Frzberger’B statements at Weimar ntficts him of misstatements reff tin oenP.r.oo. will. Jooh fLXq. E-aboiger concealed an inorta<'t passage from the gtext he Bed to i-och ' tmlhaalso inter jSauew seaienoe and falsely fried that Foch gave an assurance iat peace preliminaries would he tartly opened. TERMS OF PEACE. ANGLO-AMERICAN DIFFERENCES. New York, Feb 22 The World’s correspondent ( a l B3 _.‘T learn that the report that Idigoland and Kiel most be dismantled is not soundly based. The jnenoaus taka the view that the Jeimans’ right of defence would he oterlered with regarding these two flints. Amerioans also feel that to Kiel Canal built by Germans nns through- Germany and it bould, therefore, be left to the ieraan Government to decide rhether they wish it to be fortified, legarding Heligoland the Amfitiacs furl Her disagree with Britain, ffileudinn that so long as tbe Islandtmains German, if Germany fishes to fortify it, it is difficult to id justification against such action. the 1 IiICKY BERNSTORFF. TO ACT AS {INTERMEDIARY , Amsterdam, February 22 Count Barnstorff has been apointed io prepare and organise sice negotiations and act as inter icdiary between the delegates and ill Gentian Government THE FRENCH BUDGET. HEAVY TAXATION PROPOSED. Paris, February 22. The Bn. l got Commission estimates bit the 1920 budget will reach 720 lillion s'erliug. M. Klotz informj the Chamber that (France must Main a large cash deposit from iiiminy b.t'ore full [details of the ill for reparation were made up. HeGovernment intended to levy a hi on capital, payable in a lump a, or in annual instalments, plus tost. *" AN IRISH DEMAND. New York, Feb 24 lit the Philadelphia Convention of llulrish race a resolution was carHat the instance of Gibsons, demauoing the right ot for Ireland and ftotesting against tbe curtailment iJmfcricau sovereignty implied in Seleagne ot Nations . A fund of a million dollars to king ireedom to Ireaind was Ngsd.