BRITISH NAVY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10675, 23 July 1912, Page 5

BRITISH NAVY

IMPORTANT MANOEUVRES

AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTACI

(Received Last Night, .11.35 o'clock.)

f LONDON, July 22

During the naval manoeuvres, * : ie flee'b undca- the eoanimand of Prince Louis of Battenburg defeated ViceAdmiral CaJlaghan's attack. Princ? Louts' fleet outnumbered the enemy by two to one. VSce-Adnriiral Caillaghan succeeded in landing 30,000 imaginary troops .

Yorkshire, and broke tJrrouglh the North Sea cordon, and upon the Aif'ant'i ceomimeirce. He lost six TjattlesMpfy two cruisers , and the greater part of his mosquito flotilla, ■against Brace Louis of Battenhurp' s loss of two cruisettis a,nid twenty-feur mosquito vessels. {

A WARNING NOTE.

LORD CHAIRIGBS. BERESFORD'S ORiTTIOISMS.

(Received Last Night, 11.35 o'clock.)

LONDON, July. 22 Lord Charles" Beresford, in a letter to the press, emphasises the necessity for secuirng a, food supply against a panic, by the establishment ofigranarlses, and the equipment of certain merchantmen on trade routes wrht guns and trained gunners, inoreabc-d garrisons aind armaments at Malta, Gibraltar and Egypt, and the (reinforcement of the exii'ting active fleet. 'He points out that only 123 out of th© 223 sHiips -engaged i.n. the pires?m manoeuvres are ireally efficient for -m emergency. He also urges a strong Mediterranean fleet, and a force of cruisers on, the trade routes, and adds that the efficiency «£ the overseas help cannot be estimated until it w known wihat form, of > help the X>can:irions wiW select.