THE BRITISH NAVY
CHEERFULNESS OF THE MEN IS WONDERFUL. CONSIDERING THEIR DISAPPOINTMENT. ' (TIKtS AND STDKET GUN BERTICKS.) LONDON, 18th September. Admiral Sir David Beatty, speaking after his wife had opened the Naval Institute, said that the Navy had started the war with a whoop of joy that at last it would put to the proof the weapon which many thousands of distinguished men had spent years perfecting. "We started full of promise of Xrh&b we were about to Ho, but the promise had fallen away. We thought we •wero going out to follow in the footsteps of the heroes of a hundred years ago, but the result Tvas that -we baTged about the North Sea — (laughter) — missing mines and dodging submarines, while the patrol vessels kept our harbours intacf. Meantime, we read in the newspapers of the glorious deeds done by our fellows all over the world." _ Admiral Beatty thought that, in the circumstances, every naval officer would agree that the .cheerfulness of the men was utterly wonderful.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 70, 20 September 1915, Page 7
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168THE BRITISH NAVY Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 70, 20 September 1915, Page 7
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