THE BRITISH NAVY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1915, Page 4

THE BRITISH NAVY.

One of the most far-seeing naval au-j thoritjes of recent times was the late Admiral Mahan and his tributes to the British Navy are something more than! mere talk. In recording the American' Admiral’s death a few weeks ago, the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reported the substance of a conversation he had had with this distinguished naval authority a couple of months earlier. Admiral Mahan was emphatic in his praise of the naval strategy of Britain in this war, and did not agree with Sir Percy Scott’s views on submarines. He expected that the supremacy of the battleship would in the end be fully established. 1 “I tell you,” Admiral Mahan said, “that there is only one Navy in the world, and that the others are striplings by comparison. By comparison with the British, every other navy

still has much to learn. Whether the morale of the officers and men is. as good to-day as in the time of Nelson, remains to be proved, but, personally, 1 bold that the British Navy to-day, in all essentials, remains as incomparably superb as ever.”