EARL JELLICOE.
ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND.
ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS. (bt cable—tress association - —corraionT.) (ArSTBALIAS AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION".) LONDON, March 26. The Australian Press Association's special correspondent at Plymouth says that Earl Jcllicoo arrived aboarfl th.? Mooltan. All the family is in excellent health except Lady Prudence Jcllicoo who is still suffering from, a broken collarbone through falling out of bed at Algeciras.
Earl Jcllicoo refused to be interviewed, intimating that ho had no statement to mako on any subject, and declined to bo drawn inter any discussion of Jutland and tho rceently-pubUshe.l criticisms of the battle, remarking that 10 had finished with the Navy now, and was a private individual-
Asked his views regarding tho Singapore base, Earl Jellicoo again was reticent.
Tho interviewer suggested: 'Of course, you approve of Singapore in the interests of Australia and New Zealand?"
Earl Jellicoo laughingly shook behead, and dismissed the subject. Asked regarding the stationing of a floating dock at Singapore, ho said that this was tho first he had heard of the suggestion. "You cannot expect me to talk of things I know nothing about. lam glad to bo home, but...sorry to leavo New Zealand. It it a wonderful country, with excellent prospects for people who are prepared to work on the land; but they must go on the laud, as they cannot expect employment in the towns." Earl Jcllicoe was enthusiastic regarding the success of tho emigration scheme.
EARL JELLICOE.
Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18343, 28 March 1925, Page 13
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