NAVIES OF THE FUTURE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 34, 4 November 1919, Page 7

NAVIES OF THE FUTURE

LORD FISHER BELIEVES IN SUBMARINES WHAT HE WOULD SCRAP By Telceraph-Press Association-Copyright ' London, October 30. Admiral Fisher writes: "As it is as clear as daylight that future wars at sea will absolutely preclude the use of any war vessel except submorsibles, why keep any of the present lot? We must nllso scrap nil adm.Tnls and superior officers who won't do for the now jobs; put them in a museum, like Greenwich Hospital. Excepting submarines, all we want is the prnsent naval side of the Air Force, costing a fo'w millions. Yet the Army Bsliinatos are over four hundred millions a. year after the most devastating arnvstice known to the world. Is thiv whole nation blinded?"—" The Times." dominhmTnavies » THE GT[."T SHIPS FROM BRITAIN. London, October 31. The "Pall .Mall Gazette," in confirming the statement that the British Government is ro:idy to present the mo-t modern warship.; In the Dominions, says the Admiralty desires specially to emphnsiso that Lord Jcllicce's scheme doss not mean a b\? construction programme. The policy will he to provvdo tho new Pacific fleet only from existing craft, which are etpial in fighting value to the latest foreign vossels.—Au.s.-N.Z. Cable Assii.