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Show u BERESFORD'S EXPOSE IS GIVEN TO PUBLIC London, Jan. 30. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford's long expected book, "The Betrayal," reached the hands of the public today In an abridged and amended form, the first edition having been suppressed at the urgent request of the government Tho book today, however, contains statements and criticisms that tre bound to attract attention of the civilized world and to cause grave concern among the people of the nation na-tion who boast a powerful modern navy. It is the chapter on the Dread-naught Dread-naught typo of battleship that makes the extraordinary assertion that the "British admiralty have betrayed their trust" by building these fighting monsters in order to arouso public onthuslasm and dlstrtct attention from real conditions in the British navy and implies that other nations who' believed the sham and have adopted the same policy are simply dupes of a clever campaign of advertisement adver-tisement Lord Charles declares the Dread-naught Dread-naught policy was "Introduced to the public by means of organized system of advertisement in the press," and ays: "The public were and arc hypnotized hypno-tized by tho Drcadnnugbt policy. The excessive and vulgar advertisement lalshcd upon this experimental vessel was by no means justified. The effect ef-fect of that adertisemont not only led the British public into a delusion from which they are still suffering, but created natural Irritation among foreign powers. "Id 190G the tradition of dignity and courtesy hitherto prevailing ia the service was rudely violated and rrn- Rrltnln nrnclalmed herself tho bully of the seas "AH that the Britibh admiralty had achieved was to push a new design just in time to enable other nations to profit by its defects "To the building of these great 6hips, necessnry as it has" become, has been sacrificed' every other naval ro-quiromeut, ro-quiromeut, men, small cruisers, docks and stores. Without an adequate provision pro-vision of these essqntials tho battle fleet is useless for fighting purposes and the money Bpent on it is a present to the future enemy. "But the admiralty succeeded in attracting attention to battleships call-od call-od the dreadnaughts. That is tho delusion de-lusion of tho dreaduaught PHoy. Othor essentials do not show. -Their uoad is known only to naval officers. The public naturally enough know nothing of them. Ther trust the admiralty ad-miralty to provide what is necossary. The reasons for the absolute withdrawal with-drawal of the first edition through government intervention for a modification modi-fication and correction of certain por- of tho book aro stated on good authority to bo (hat it contained a I foment that In July last England and Germany were on the verge of war and that a change of policy in The admiralty and the eatab Ishment of a war board made the criticisms of the admiralty by Lord Charles, because be-cause it did not adopt the changes Srcld by him. untimely But oven In the revised and expurgated edition .ot "The Betrayal,'" kord Charles makes. In sweeping termsland without modu- - latlon of phrase, a scathing indict- y H ment of British naval policy between ' M the years 1902-9, coupled with sen- I H sational statements and charges and J H personalia of much interest , f' H |