Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-06-26 | Page 3 | Impossible to Have Avoided Scuttling Ships

"1J Impossible to 4 Have Avoided Scuttling Ships LONDON, June 25, Via Montreal. Speaking In thp house of commons today to-day on the subject of reparation for 'b -inkin: of i h r , r :i , ,( n w.ir.-lups J Waiter Hume l.one, first lord of the tfcfVJv' admiral l , said t he nllief representatives representa-tives in Taris had this under consid eration The statement that the crews "IS were chanced periodically was not 'Qsft correct, he declared, but invalids were exchanged. The total guard and main- k tcnance parly had been reduced from 4,700, to about 1,800 isctj Mr. Long explained it was Impos- ?ible for the admiralty to take precautions pre-cautions to preenf the sinking, be- liot,, cause the ships were interned, not surrendered. Therefore, the admiralty admiral-ty had no power to place guards on l them. BSfrB I he first lord denied the admiralt: fctll hr.ij re ninn-1 ni'ei! niTnmnt, cm hp.ci.-mc it-. pmrM i'.ii iii,-- decision iht of the allied heads for internment kOfc controlled the situation and made pre- U cntion of th' scuttling impossible. l' 00