BRITAIN'S NAVAL PROBLEM.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 156, 17 May 1909, Page 5

BRITAIN'S NAVAL PROBLEM.

Sir John Fisher is a man whose restless energy gives him enormous advantages over the ordinary man. He often gets up at three or four o'clock in the morning, and friends of his 'are quite accustomed to his nayine to them at nine o'clock in the evening that he must go to bed and leave them because he had been up so early in the morning, and has to be up again next morning at the same ungodly hour. The man and his temperament arc in perfect accord. You could not look at him for a moment without gathering that he was no ordinary man. Thick set, alert, with beady, dark eyes, with a bull dog jaw, and a tenacious mouth, with the sallow skin of the East, be looks just the taut sailor to the very finger tips, who fears neither God nor man. and spares no foe, no opponent, no obstacle.

On him is concentrating at this moment the same storm as on the Government. Two papers, like the "Morn* ing Post" and the "Daily Express," representing an important if not predominant section of the Unionist Party, arc hammering away at him every day: and nobody doubts that they are inspired by powerful influences within the Navy itself. It looks as if it were going to develop into a fight, with Sir John Fisher on the one side sod Lord Charles Beresfortl on the other. In short, we arc living in big times, with wars of Titans all round os.-M.A.P.