SILENT NAVY WORKING COURAGEOUSLY
NEITHER SWOLLEN HEADS NOR COLD FEET. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received May 18, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, May 18. At the Navy League luncheon in honour of the United States' Navy, Sir Edward Carson, First Lord of the Admiralty, declared that the arrival of an American flotilla was one of the most important events in the history of the world. It was a recognition of the fact that the old and new worlds mean to complete and preserve the freedom of the seas in the interests of civilisation and humanity against plunder and savagery. He admitted that the submarines were a real danger, Iml the British Navy, assisted by the American Navy, would counteract it. Referring to the criticisms of He' Admiralty, Sir E. Carson said: "Let the growlers continue to growl. The Navy is doing its work silently and courageously. Tin' submarine menace will not be solved by abuse or funk. Our people might be sorely tried in the coming months, and it might in the long run be a question which nation will stick it out. We are going to stick it mil. The Navy has neither swollen heads nor cold feet." He advised the country not to pay the slightest attention to those who imagined that the Navy and the Admiralty did not know what they were about.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13488, 19 May 1917, Page 5
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