LORD FISHER'S MEMOIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 October 1919, Page 5

LORD FISHER'S MEMOIRS.

—.—._————O_—._...—-PIQU-ANT‘ STORY OF THE WAR. _. LONDON, Oct. 14. "Lord Fisllel"s memoirs, published in "The Times, tells _a piquant story of the war. The gigantic conception of an invasion of Germany through the B'altic, with three armies, including a Russian army, following an immense fleet, dominated him while at the Admiralty, and the still insists that this would have ended the war in 1915. At the War C-ouncil he was the only naval representative opposed to the Dardanelleg operations, but he adds: “I backed Mr Churchill because ‘he had courage and imagi-nation.” Lord Fisher eventually resigned because he could no.t stand the lying by wihch the Dardanelles operations were kept .go~ ‘mg. He scolfs at the ofi‘ie.ia.l‘ spokesman who ludim'ousl_V asserted that the Tuilks were ‘e-oming to the last round of ammunition. He’ admits that ‘there was frequent tension in those days between him and Lord Kitchener. He delivezed an ultimatum one day to Kitchener that if the Queen Elizabeth was not withdrawn from the Dardanelles he'would leave the Admiralty. uNext day, luckily. she did leave, for a -submarine which had been prowling round for a fortnight looking for her, that night blew up her Wloodell dummy, thinking it had got her. He hints that one time there was a big scheme to polish oft‘ every soul on Heligoland and the surrounding fleet by deadlypoison gas. ’ . ‘. 1.01-(J. Fischer describes Lord Kiteh. ener as ‘a great maul, blulw also ;; great ‘deception, inasmuch as he could .1107.’ be What the people thought. Like Moses, hewhas a’ great commissariat oflicer, but was '.no Nepoleon or Moltke. He was a Carnot in _exeelsis, bu’; C. 1"? ~"i.'.C fzxzpc in }l‘E§_‘,"C';t_*rg .{.‘~il-jug-=_