WASTE IN THE NAVY.
LORD FISHER’S LETTER.. I/ON DON, September 2. Lord Fisher, in a characteristicaily vigorous letter U> “’! he rimes, - ' says the current expenditure on the Navy is inI credible. There is ruinous waste. The j angel of the Lord went forth on AxI mistier*. Day and loft tive- German fleet | dead corpses in the morning, in .SennaI cherib style. His experience has been i that the only way to stop waste is- ruth-* | lessly and remorselessly to sack the | whole spendthrift crew neck and crop. : Hall the Navy is already obsolete, and | ought to be scrapped, and the other half j will be obsolete in ,t few years owing to i progress in internal combustion engines ! and tho use of oil fuel. Lord Fisher adds that a i’lPinch gun was ready to i he built when he left the Admiralty in May, 1915.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12735, 3 September 1919, Page 3
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