ADMINISTRATION OF THE ADMIRALTY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12494, 22 March 1909, Page 2

ADMINISTRATION OF THE ADMIRALTY.

AN ENQUIRY DEMANDED.

A SURPRISE FOR. GERMANY.

London, March 19. A, number of Peers and Commoners have .signed a requisition asking Mr Asquith for an enquiry into the administration of the Admiralty. Tho "Standard's" Berlin correspondent reports that Mr Asquith' s statement that the Admiralty had ascertained what had happened in Germany almost immediately after the German battleships had begun is an unpleasant surprise to the German authorities, who bad no. idea that. their naval secrets were so inefficiently, guarded. Elaborate precautions had been taken previously to conceal the. extent Qf shipbuilding operations.