AN INSULT TO THE NAVY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 254, 22 July 1919, Page 6

AN INSULT TO THE NAVY

Sir,—As an election approaches the different M.P.'s give us the benefit of their opinions. • Among the latest to do so is Mr. Semple. He extolled the miners, and said "they aro altogether blameless for the present shortage of coal." Porhaps Mr. Sempte will put down in black and white the amount of coal per month from January, 1918, until the armistice was declared, and the amount, per month since. Mr. Semple also alludes to Ix>rd Jellicoe "as one man using 3000 tons of coal while children go to bed cold." Well, I oonsider this talk an insult to the Navy Lord Jellicoe represents, the Navy that for oyer four years silently, loyally, and bravely guarded the oceans, and without whose care people would not only have gono cold, but would not have had any beds to go to, as houses and beds would long ago have been blown to pieces. Is this our gratitude to our protectors that we sit and listen while such talk goes on, and we do not read that one single protest was made? If it had been a Russian Bolshevik warship what would Mr. Semple have had to say? Two or threo years ago I heard an able and well-educated man remark, "When the war is over the first, thing we will-for-get is God, and the soldiers," : and, x may I add, the- sailors.—l am. etc., BROAD-MINDED.