NAVAL HISTORY OF TO-DAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1642, 25 November 1916, Page 4

NAVAL HISTORY OF TO-DAY.

Tin l importance of listv:i 1 history was emphasised by Admiral PrimV. l Louis ol; Billterberg in ;i recent speech at Kind’s College, University of Loiuion. “We are making 1 1 is.i( ivy now," he said, “and the next: general ion will find inexhaustible materials lor study and 1 bought. It is essential that records should he kepi in a suitable form Unit naval students may henelil from them. I am not divulging any oftieial secret, I think, when 1 say that the Admiralty within a few days of the declaration of war succeeded in obtaining the services of .Mr Julian Corbett as oftieial historian of the navy, and he has been working there oi his usual indefatigable manner ever since. Were it not for the censor, 1 should he templed to givo an example why it is necessary to have on record not only the narrative of events, but of evervlhing that led up to the policy and caused those in authority to adopt certain measures. But with the censor in mind, 1 leave it at that, and say that what may be secret now will be clear as daylight by the time the labours of my friend see the light of dav.”