THE HUMILIATED FLEET
SIR DAVID'b-EATTY'S SCATHING SPEECH. LONDON, 3rd December. Admiral Sir David Beatty, in a speech to the crew of the Lion on the eve of .escorting the Germans to Scapa Flow, mud: "It ■was a pitiable and horrible sight to see these great ships following a British light cruiser into internment. The' sides of the old Lion", which have been well hammered in the past, 'must have ached, as I ached and ybu ached, to give them another taste of what we intended for them; but their humiliating end was a proper end for an enemy who had proved himself to be lacking in chivalry at sea. The enemy's strategy, tactics, and behaviour have been beneath contempt. His end was worthy of a nation which waged war in such 'a fashion."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 7
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133THE HUMILIATED FLEET Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 7
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