Te Aroha And Ohinemuri News Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1917 NOTES AND COMMENTS

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5488, 16 May 1917, Page 2

Te Aroha And Ohinemuri News Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Afternoons. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1917 NOTES AND COMMENTS

ADMIRALTY CONTROL The arrangments against the sab marine campaign, and generally of British naval affairs are very much improved by the change announced in the duties of the First Sea Lord. ‘Admiral Jellicoe," it is announced, “haß been freed from admiristrative detail in order to give his undivided attention to questions of policy and startegy.” At this hour, the British passion for making clerks of the highest officers is frustrated. It has taken nearly three years of immensely extended warfare to remove the burden of red-tape documents from the head of the Navy. Oply now has it dawned on the official mind that the chief of the greatest navy in the world

must really give his individual attention to questions of. policy and strategy; np to this time this high officer, charged with the heaviest responsibilities, has been obliged to vi'festle with countless documents that mean nothing but that he has the honour to sign himself somebody else's obedient servant! The terms of the announced obange are the greatest conoeiv. able condemnation of the system entrenched in the Btitish Admiralty from time immemorial. They ought makeja greatei sensation than even to the report of the Dardanelles Commission. The improvement is likely to be beyond exiec'ations and the campaign against the submarines will get a very large share of it.