THE BRITISH NAVY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 71, 17 March 1902, Page 3

THE BRITISH NAVY.

OANDID CRITICISM BY LORD PffART.ttH I BKKEdFOBD. BT. JAMES GAZETTE'S TRENCHANT SUGGESTION. MB FBESS ASSOCIATION. Received 16,4.47 p.m. London, March 15. Lord Charles Beresford, in a speech at the London Chamber of Commerce, advocated the appo'ntment of a Naval War Lord of the Admiralty to organise ind submit a statement to Parliament setting forth the full rt quirements to ensure efficiency in Ihe navy. Hi- should be assisted by the ablest speci li-tx and heads of departments. Lord Charts also the purchase of colleges at Home and in the colonics to suppli's. When he went to the Mediterranean, be said, he found tho < o>l supply at Gibraltar only sufficient for a wtek in war time. He threatened to resign and publish his reasons, for doing bo, unless tbe matter was remedied. 'I hei e would be an abominable waste of three weeks in conveying coal; fter war r»as declared, when t' o fleet ought to be hammering the out my. The real reserve of sailors was on'y 19,000, i.'Stead of 70,000, or batter | still 140,000. He advocated a shorter period of service »sari experiment, i mobilisation, and more extended manoeuvres. The shooting of the heavy guDS was shocking. The At, James' Gazette, commenting j on the speech, eugg»sts the hanging of I somebody.