THE NAVY.
"INCREDIBLE AND RUINOUS WASTE." By Telegraph.—Prea> Awn.—Copyrllhi. , Received Sept. 2, ll.fi pja. ,* London, Sept, 2. Lord Fißher, in- a characteristically) vigorous letter to ,'the Tines newspaper, says that the owwnt expenditure of tha Navy is an incredible and rttinMU wait#, The Angel' of the Lord went forth on Armistice day anil left the German dead corpses in, the morning, in Senna* cherib style. Lord Fisher"* etperianee has been that the only way to stop waste is to ruthlessly And remonMltpily "sack"-the whole spendthrift crew, seek; and crop. Half the Navy Is already olmkh lete and ought to be scrapper and the other half will be obsolete in a few years owing to the progress of internal combustion and the use of oil fuel.
Lord Fisher adds that a 20in. gun Wai M ready to be built when he left tha V iAdmiralty in May, 1915.—Au5.-N.Z. Cabl% CP A»sn. , i>
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1919, Page 4
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151THE NAVY. Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1919, Page 4
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