"The Armada only A Squadron"

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 December 1915, Page 2

"The Armada only A Squadron"

(Lomlon Times Correspondent.) Parisj Sept. 12. In the Figaro to-morrow, M, Joseph Iteinacli, iindor tlie pseudonym* o 1 "Polybe," will publish his impressions of a visit to the Grand Fleet, which was made by the invitation of the British Government. He says the Fleet is the most powerful over gathered. The Armada writs only a wpiadron beside it. He was rstnick with the admirable state of training .shown by the crews, with the ease and exactitude of the movements on hoard, with the rapidity, with which the seaplane took its flight, with the regularity and speed with which the gigantic Flee!,, on the order being given, got up steam and proceeded to sea in niajes[ie file as if Admiral Jellicoe, who had scarcely interrupted a .conversation m General Joffre to give a fi'w im; tuitions, had presyjd 'the but lon of a machine. he «uys iie t -»i had finer crejws or a morn liomogeneonis or better.-armed Fleet. The English, M. Reinach says, regard' the submarine attacks on the linens as infamous, and tli'at the officers of the Navy would rather break their swords than engage in such work. About half the German submarine fleet had now been destroyed, and, though others ol larger tonnage " were building, the numbers did not compensate for those which had been destroyed. while tlie crews were waiting in the boldaiess and cleverness of the original complements, and seemed conscious of the risks which their piracy involved. Though the submarine wmi was ardently pursued by net. cannon, explosive bomb, and other means, the war was too narrow to please a Fleet bred in the traditions of bur battles, but the duty is joyously accomplished.