Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 52, 7 February 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

AfR AND SEA SUPREMACY. SUPPORTER OF MR CHURCHILL. LORD FISHER’S STRENGTH IN THE ADMIRALTY. (Received 8.5 a. in.) London. February 6. The Observer strongly advocates the appointment of Mr Churchill a s .Minister of Air Services, and declares that the air defence need his mental freshness and executive energy.

The paper also takes up the demand made recently in many quarters that Lord Fisher should lie recalled to the Admiralty, and says it is not doubtful that Germany is preparing surprises to make a supreme effort in ingenuity and audacity to destroy the British sea supremacy, and Lord Fisher is the only man living who has beaten Germany at all points in everything he has been called on to do. The country must have the benefit of his unrivalled technical genius and executive powers. THE WHEAT SUPPLY. CORV TRADERS AND THE GOVERNMENT. deceived 8.85 a.m.) London. February 6. The Tress Bureau states that the Government discussed the proposals of tht Corn Trade and Millers’ Association s to maintain adequate stocks of Hieat during the months when f>Cy are usually lowest. By general 'agreement the stocks held by the trade, as distinct from the Government. will be extremely small, and public discussion of any scheme which they adopted would he inadvisable in the national interests. NEW ZEALANDERS AT PLAY, VICTORIOUS RUCBYITES. (Received 8.85 a.m.) London, February G. At Rugby football, the New Zealanders from Hornchurch beat the Artists’ Rifle Club by eleven to nil. The three thousand spectators included many New Zealand soldiers.