THE BETRAYAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10545, 30 January 1912, Page 5

THE BETRAYAL

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LORD CHARLES BERESFQRD S PAMPHLET A STINGING CRITICISM. (Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.) LONDON, January 29. Lord Charles Beresford lias issued his pamphlet entitled "The Betrayal the publication of which was suspended last autumn. The writer states that the whole of the Admiralty policy between 1902 to 1911 was a series of disastrous mistakes. The personnel of the Navy was starved, and rts efficiency and training impaired, -lhe coaling and repairing stations in ta© overseas Dominions had been _ dismantled. The present condition ot tthe trade routes was a national danger. In 1903 there were sixty small cruisers on foreign stations. iNovi there were twenty-Three, despite the fact that privateering, which was abolished under the Declaration ot Paris., had been insidiously revived by the Peace Conference of 1W • Sea-borne trade was now open to_ sudden and secretly organised attacKß conducted by merchant vessels, which a few hours previously may have heen sheltering in neutral arbours as non-combatants, and a few hours later 'may repair m the same harbours and take supplies before embarking on fresh adventures. It was often forgotten that heavy armoured ■ships depend for their utility upon their complimentary units Lord Charles Boresford adds: A War Staff is essential to } the proper organisation of the Fleet."