THE NAVY LEAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 7

THE NAVY LEAGUE.

? 'AN EMPIRE SUCH AS WAS NEVER DREAMED OF."

Tho following is aii extract from a letter received -.from the secretary of S 9 ( C "P ta m Crutehley) iLi t V-W. Palmer,, secretary of the S hr . a ™k<>ffe have KliW te Wisher'regime at the Admiralty, although not to m policy. History will certeinly apportion the praise or blame due to that distinguished officer with more. fairness W^f'?i.'- 0W - tho present moment; piit of this we. can he certain, and that s that no man of, modern times is more universally respected, both, as a seaman and an administrator, than Admiral of the Pleet, Sir ■■ Art'hur Wilton (t(ie new Eirst Sea Lord),.who iscomrS f P ° k '"• ? fl as > silent ' nan;: a demon for work, and an unsparing taskmaster,; But for. all that there is not a man , n ~, Navy who would not sooner serve uncjer him in the event of war than any other.man that could be chosen.. ,So far as one can judge, he gas accepted the subordinates deft bv (sir John lisher, and there is no circumstance at the present moment which leads te the belief -that he contemplates or will inaugurate .any drastic changes, f think I should be safe in saying that 11 ■.«'!.' on the state of the Navy we not' attended to, the country, will hear of his views in a very straightforward fashion. In 'conclusion, there may be a pessimistic note r«nnmg through this: letter," but I should.be sorry if it led you, to think: ' n ,. a Sy way that things were, going badly mth this country/ I do not think ?0 - ~^ a !', 6 . having.our troubles in a world in.which events are moving rapidly, and great affairs call for settlement, in. the near future. Wo hear m . a K sp ? a >?i ?' bo suggest that the virility of the British race is exhausted, anuVthat we may have to yield the position in the world that we havo held so long. Personally, and I think ; with reason, I do-not believe this. . Everything points the other way: -We Britons, have; before us: the prospects of an Empire such as.waß never dreamed of by Rome :in tjie height of her glory; and although our friends'on the other side of the North Sea suggest' that the twentieth century is for them, oven as the nineteenth was for us, I cannot help thinking that the day is yet far off when we shall have te' lower tlie colours-we have carried so successfully for so long."