THE NAVAL WAR.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16217, 21 May 1918, Page 7

THE NAVAL WAR.

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(Reliter's Telegrams.)

„ PARIS, Mnv 19. I lie Government has awarded the Croix de Guerre, with palms, to AdKe^os and Tyrwhitt uud ltj other liritisli naval officers, for the Zeebruggc and Ostend operations.

Vice-Admiral Roger Keyes, C.i.1.G.. D.5.0.. is just the man for a 'cuttmg-out" expedition liko those of Zeebruggc and Ostend. During the Boxer rising in IIKXMie was a lieutenant and led a eutting-out expedition U P the mouth of the Pei-ho river, passed the l'aku forts at its mouth, and cut out three new Chinese destroyers, taking one after another by boarding, cutlass and pistol in hand, quite in tho old style. For this exploit lie was promoted Commander. When the war broko out he held the rank of commodore in command of the submarine flotilla, and his exploits in the Bight of Heligoland made possible "Beatty's Heligoland" at tho end of August, 1914. He is credited with having penetrated up the month of the Elbe a good way beyond Cuxhaven. The admiral was born in 1872. and attained the rank of rear-admiral during 1917, and during the war has won tho C.M.G. and D.S.O. He succeeded Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon in command of the Dover Patrol. His father, the late General Sir Charles Keves, C.M.G., was a dashing Mutiny hero, who could handle both cavalry and infantry with the same brilliancy.