THE WORLD’S PRESS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 67, 18 November 1914, Page 6

THE WORLD’S PRESS.

The Meaning of Admiralty. We have only to look at our own harbours with their increasing bustle _ o activity, at our merchant vessels plying their regular routes, and at our stead?, uninterupted supply of foodstuffs, to receive an indelible lesson in the mean-, ing of admiralty. The value of the control of the sea has never in all naval history been more impressively demonstrated than the past two months. Thanks to it, we are able m these islands in the midst of an unexampled convulsion to ■ lead wluu is practically a normal existence.— Daily Mail. V '*■ America’B_rieet. .1^... fn, the Reichstag, as in the Parliament at London, the growth of our fleet has been cited as a reason why the strength of England's and German? s should be increased. Our own naval experts have insisted Hint we must not yield second place in capital-worship tonnage to Germany, and in Germany it has been demanded that it should lie second only to England. It is time that we led the way towards sense and sanity and stopped the craze for warships which in about thirty years sent our navy appropriations up from 7,000,000 dollars to 140,718,000 dollars.—Evening Post (New York). The Nelson Spirit. The Admiralty has done well to r»peat the fact that the loss of these cruisers makes no aprpeciable difference to the fighting strength of the Navy. The passing of man brave men is, of course, a grievous misfortune, unhappily inevitable, and to be accepted with pride and resignation, but the (spirit of the Navy remains as splendift as it has always been, and it is well expressed in the' last modest lines of dhe report written by Commander Norton, of the Hogue: “1 have the honour to submit that I may be appointed to another ship as soon as I can get a kit.' That is the Nelson spirit, the spirit that wins victories. —Express.