AN INQUIRY, WANTED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13917, 20 March 1909, Page 5

AN INQUIRY, WANTED.

(Received March 20, 9.3-5 a.m.) LONDON, March 19. A number of Peers and Commoners* have signed a requisition asking Mr Asquith for an inquiry into the administration of the- Admiralty. Meetings aro being organised in the city and at Liverpool 'to discuss matters in connection with the naval crisis. The Standard's Berlin correspondent reports that Mr Asquith's statement that the Admiralty had ascertained what had happened almost immediately after the construction of the German battleships was begun was an unpleasant surprise to German authorities, who had no idea that their secrets were

fO inefficiently guarded. Elaborate precautions, had previously been taken to conceal the extent of the shipbuild; ing operations.