THE NAVY'S TASK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1914, Page 4

THE NAVY'S TASK.

When the official history of the war comes to be written, says the Press military correspondent, we shall probably be able to form some idea, of the immensity of the task performed by the Admiralty Transport Department. Early in August the British Expeditionary Force Wfts landed in France, and up till the end of November the transports had completed upwards of 2000 voyages across the Channel without a single casualty. Apart from these short journeys, the Transport Department has been responsible for the sea carriage of troops over thousands of miles of ocean and in many parts of the world. The transport of the Canadian troops across the Atlantic was a great feat, and that of the Indian troops to Marseilles a greater. Some thousands of regular troops have been sent Home from India and Egypt, and their places have been filled by British Territorials. The New Zealand and Australian Expeditionary Forces have been safely landed in Egypt, and. minor transport work has been accomplished in sending troops to West Africa and to East Africa, to Kiao-chau, to Samoa, to New Guinea, and New Britain. So far the work has been carried out without mishap, and it will be carried on unceasingly until the end of the war. It would be interesting to know how many transports have passed across the English Channel and throughout the Mediterranean to date.