ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

NAVY DOING ITS WORK. "WE ARE GOING TO STICK IT OUT." A TEST OF ENDURANCE. Received May 18, f1.30 p.m. London, May 17. At the Navy League luncheon in honor of the United States Navy, Sir E. Carson declared that the arrival of the American flotilla was one of the most important events in the history of the world. It was a recognition of the fact that the old and new worlds mean to complete and preserve the freedom of the seas in the interests of civilisation and humanity against plunder and savagery. He admitted the submariuisni was a real danger, but the Navv, assisted by the American navy, would counteract its operations. Referring to the criticism of the Admiralty, Sir. K. Carson *a:a: "Let tho growlers continue to growl. The navy is doing its work silently and courageously. The submarine nicnaeo will not be solved by abuse or funk. Our people might, be sorely tried during the coming months, and it might, in the long run, be a question as to which nation could stick it out. We were going to stick it out. The navy had neither .swollen head nor cold feet." He advised the country not to pay the slightest attention to those who imagined the navy and Admiralty did noi know what they were about.