HITTING POWER TELLS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13922, 29 March 1909, Page 5

HITTING POWER TELLS.

(Received March 29, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 28. Admiral Percy Scott in a speech declared that the value of a fleet depends more on its hitting* power than on its* numbers. The Indomitable, with eight guns, made double • the number of hits to the Dreadnought .- GRATITUDE. Lieut. C. Bellairs, Liberal member for King's Lynn, whom the Liberal Association , repudiated, obtained at a meeting ,of his constituents a unanimous, resolution of confidence which declared that the anxiety in the country and the Empire regarding the naval supremacy proved his warnings to be right, and,' that he had earned the gratitude of his countrymen.