SENSATIONAL SPEECH.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 366, 17 March 1902, Page 2

SENSATIONAL SPEECH.

LORD BERESFORD’S DISCLOSURES, SOMEONE SHOULD BE HANGED, By Telt graph —Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Mar. 15, Lord Charles Beresford’s speech at the London Chamber of Commerce advocated the appointment of a naval war Lord of Admiralty to organise and submit a statement to Parliament setting forth the full requirements to ensure efficiency, the officer to be assisted by the ablest specialists and heads of Departments. Lord • Charles Beresford also urged the purchase of collieries at Home and in the colonies to ensure a supply. When he went to the Mediterranean he found, he said, that the coal at Gibraltar and Malta was insufficient for a week in war time.

He threatened to resign and publish reasons for so doing unless the matter was remedied.

There would, lie said, be an abominable waste of three weeks in conveying coal after war had been declared, when the fleet ought to be hammering the enemy. The real reserve of sailors, he declared, was only nineteen thousand, instead of seventy thousand, or better still, one hundred and forty thousand.

tie advocated shorter service as an experiment, mobilization, and more extended manoeuvres. The shooting of the heavy guns was, he declared, shocking. St. James’s Gazette, in an article commenting on the speech, suggests it proves that tiiere is need for the hanging of somebody,