The Naval Correspondent of the Times, writing in Thursday's issue,
makes a spirited reply to Admiral Bridge, and peremptorily denies that the "organised plan" of the Admiralty, if it ever existed, has ever been applied to himself. If there has been any coincidence between his views and those of the responsible rulers of the Navy, it has been neither bought, imposed, nor solicited. On the personal aspect of this controversy we do not feel called upon to intrude; but without in the least endorsing the charges inferentially brought against the Naval Correspondent of the Times—whom we gladly recognise as a man of honour and probity, even when we hold him most mistaken— we fully agree with Sir Cyprian Bridge's statement that the public will be gravely deceived if it is led. to believe that the recent agitation was started by a syndicate of dis- contented officers. "It was entirely due to the initiative of members of the profession of journalism, without any aug. gestion on the part of naval officers of any kind." That is undoubtedly the truth in regard to the present agitation.
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