REORGANISING THE ADMIRALTY.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3080, 10 May 1917, Page 5

REORGANISING THE ADMIRALTY.

FREER HAND FOR SIR JOHN JELLICOE TO GRAPPLE WITH THE SUBMARINES London, May 8. The constitution of the new Naval War Staff Hae been virtually settled. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, as Chief of Staff, is freed from administrative detail, ill order to give his undivided a,tten tion to questions of polioy and strategy. Ho is assisted by Directors of Naval Operations and of Naval Intelligence, associated with other Directors charged with new construction and the combating of submarines.—The "Times." ( WE MUST TIGHTEN THE BLOCKADE THE SWISS AND DUTCH TEADE CONVENTIONS. Paris, May 8. M. Jean Herbette, writing in the "Echo de Paris," insists on the urgent necessity of tightening the blockade. He quotes statistics from a confidential report showing enormous increases in the exports of foodstuffs from Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and Holland to Germany in 1916, as compared with 1913. If necessary, ■ the conventions made with the Netherlands Oversea Trust and the Societe de Surveillance of Switzerland must be denounced. Germany's neighbours must be told either to cease supplying food to Germany or to cease purchasing goods abroad. The United States can alter the whole aspect of the war by putting herself forward in accord with her European Allies in this decisive dilemma.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.