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Show J Naval Authorities Expect ; to Secure Return of j ' Helgoland.- ; LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 4. The) r'Brltloh naval authorities have decided 5 that It will bo unnecessary to demand " the return of Helgoland to Great Britain Brit-ain from Germany, Winston Spencer ' Churchill, the minister of munitions, . announced In a apeech at Dundee to- night. I Mr, Churchill also said the government govern-ment had decided upon the natlonall- zatlon of the railways. f "We enter the peace conference," said Mr. Churchill during the course j of hts address, "with the absolute determination de-termination that no limitation shall be imposed to our right to maintain our naval defense. We do not intend, no matter what arguments and appeals are addressed to us, to lend ourselves In any way to any fettering restrictions restric-tions which will prevent the British navy maintaining its well tried and well deserved supremacy." LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. -i The work of the British navy during the war was lauded by Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the admiralty in his address ad-dress opening the "sea power" exhibition exhibi-tion of pictures and relics in London today. The sea power of the British navy from the very outbreak of the war, he declared, held all the eyes of the world, crushed the life out of her enemies and assured the freedom of the world 1 by her efforts. 4 Sir Eric pointed out that It was the assistance of the navy which had enabled en-abled coal, food and munitions to bo sent t,o Italy and France, while Great Britain's own munitions for the western wes-tern front had been carried on the back of the navy. It waB the navy which had enabled the British oxpe-dltionary oxpe-dltionary force to bo conveyed to Franco, In which operations more1 than 18,000,000 men, all told, had boon convoyed with a total loss from all causes of less than 5,000 men. It was the navy, ho continued, which enabled the operations to bo carried on in Mesopotamia, Macedonia and Palostlno and which had brought about a condition of thingn which resulted in the breakdown of Bulgaria, while bo-hind bo-hind tiio navy was the blockado which crushed the llfo out of tho Central powors. and mado them huo for poaco. From 1014 to 1917, Sir Eric stated, I tho tonth cruiser Hquadron had kept I under guard a atrotch of sea 800 miles long from tho Orknoys to Ireland and had lntorcoptod 1C.00O Hhlps taking1 suppllos to enemy countries. Although1 this work had boon accomplished for tho raoHt part Jn tho dead of night or In bad light, amid tomposts and blizzards, bliz-zards, loss than four per cent of ves-hoIh ves-hoIh Kuoceodod in passing tho linos of the blockade, no LIMA, Pom, Wodnoeduy, Doo. 4 Throo American crulsorfl are oxpoctcd to arrive horo from San Francisco In t |
