LORD JELLICOE INTERVIEWED.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 September 1919, Page 5

LORD JELLICOE INTERVIEWED.

’ COMMENTS ON AUSTRALIAN V AND N_.Z. REPORTS. ‘ WEIJLINGTON, Sept. 3. ‘ “Can you say,” :a. reporter asked Lord Jellicoe to-night, "what. truth there is in the foreca§Ts of your report on naval imatteifs to the Australian Grovernment, iijhieh appeared in the cables this morning‘?.’’ '’ _ '_ "‘All_l ean, say,”_ replied Lord ‘Jellicoe, “i'is'.t'llati thieieport. as "V givenxin the eable message is quite Vinciolrrect. May I..sugges.t that _before any assump. tions are made on the subject of the repbrt. that ‘those desiring to ‘do so should wait until ‘the report is In~a.de publiC———if it is ever rnade public.” Asked regarding the progress being made in respe’et.of the report which is being prepared for the New Zealand Gevernnient. on naval matters, Lord Jellieoe replied, “I am trying to work on it in the intervals of hospitality, and I managed to get a. fairly good day at it yesterday_ R-et'erence was made by the reporter to the cabled summary of -Lord Fisher’s letter to The Times, and Lord Jcllieoe was asked if he cared to make any Comment on..it;_ “What do you think Lord Fisher means?” Lord Jelll('O£.‘ asked in «turn. “Well,” said the r<*porter, “it looks as if he had gone over to the paeifists.” The Admiral thought otherwise, and xves of ‘the opininn that 11yide1'l}'ing; Lord Fisher’s statements I'egal'ding.the scrapping of the existing‘ B‘ritish l\’avyi"was the idea, that a. biggzer and more modern navy should he lfmilt. However. Lord Jellivev pointed out that it was difiieult to Cnvnment on the cable sunllna.r_V of T,ol'd F‘i.sll:.‘l"'s letter. and he pl'efel'l'e(l not to 5:.» t'nrther into the sribjeet.