"THE BETRAYAL."

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14660, 30 January 1912, Page 5

"THE BETRAYAL."

tOSD'eHABLES BEBETOGfED CRITICISES THE ADMIRALTY. SUSPENDED PAMPHLET PUBLISHED. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. Received 11 p.m., Jin. 29th. LONDON, Jan. 29. Lord Charles Berosford has issued hio pamphlet, "The Betrayal," the pub--1 of which was -uspcnded last autumn. It states -.1-at the whole of the Admiralty policy from 1902 to 1911 was a series of disastrous mistakes. The personnel of the Xnvy was starved, its efficiency and training iu.r.aired, and coaling and repairing stations in the Overseas l.ominions woro dismantled. The present conditions of the trade routea was a national danger. In 11)03 tlcro were s">ty small cruisers jn foro.gn stations, now only twenty-three, despite the fact that privateer.r.g, which was abulshed uuder the Declarat : on -f P.i. 'is, was insidiously revived hy tho I'oacn Conference of 1907. Seaborne trade was now open to sudden and secretly organised attacks conducted hy merchant vessels which a. few hour's previously were sheltering in neutral harbours as non-combatants t.nd a few hours later may repair in the sau.o harbours, and take Supplies before emhaikiiij on fresh adr;-nViros. It was often forgotten that heavily armoured ch',»s depend for their utility upon complementary unite. Hi adds that :i war staif is Croatia, to the proper cirnrrsation of the fleet.