NAVAL MATTERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 291, 4 September 1919, Page 5

NAVAL MATTERS

VISCOUNT JELLICOE'S REPORT. By Telcgrajli—lPress Association. Christchurch, September 3. Can you say, a leporter asKed Viscount Jellicoo "to-night, wnat truth there is in tho forecasts of your. report on , navalmatters to the AiKt/alian Government which" appeared' iu the inormng i "All X can say," replied the Admiral, "is that tho. report ,as given in tho cable inessago is quite incorrect. May I suggest, beioio auy'assuinpuoas aru; made ,ou the subject ot the' report, that thoso desiringjjo do so should wait until the report is jnado public, if it is ever.made public." ' ' ' ■ : - Asked regarding j. the progress being made iu respect to the report being prepared for the New Zealand Government on naval matters, Viscount Jellicoo replied: "I am trying.to work on it in the intervals of hosp<;ality, and I managed to got a fairly good day at it, yesterday." Reference was made by tho reporter to tho cabled summary of Lord "Fisher's lottor to "Tho Times,'" and Viscount .Jellicoo was askod if lie would carp to mako any comment on it. / '..,-.. "What do you think Lord Fisher, means?" Viscount Jellicoo asked in turn. Well, said tho reporter, it looks as if he has gono over to tho. pacifists.: , , . The Admiral thought otherwise, and was of tho opinion that underlying' Lord Fisher's statements regardjug the scrapping of tho existing British Navy- was an idea that a bigger and more.modern Navy should he built. However, Viscount Jellicoe pointed out it was difficult to comment on a cable:'summary'of-Lord Fisher's letter, and ho preferred not to go fmlaher into tho subject.