LATE EARL BEATTY

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 61, 12 March 1936, Page 9

LATE EARL BEATTY

FUNERAL NEXT MONDAY

FELT END APPROACHING

(United Press Association and British Offici.il (Wireless.)

(Received March 12, 10.15 a.m.)

LONDON, March 11,

■The remains of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty will be interred in St. Paul's Cathedral on March 16.

A Court Circular, records that the King learnt with profound regret pf the death of Earl Beatty, whose inspiring leadership of the Grand Fleet during the latter perioJ of the Great War won the Empire's admiration and gratitude. Newspapers recall Earl Beatty's remarks when he was, informed of Lord Jellicoe's death. He was then in bed with a chill. . . .

"So Jellicoe has gone," he said. "Well, I feel I shall next be summoned. Ido not think the call will be long. I am tired, very tired." Lord Beatty had been ill for a considerable time. Last November he insisted on leaving a sick bed to act as a bearer at the funeral of Earl Jellicoe. When still ill he took part in King George's funeral procession on January 28. Since then his condition became steadily worse. OLD COLLEAGUE'S TRIBUTE. Admiral Sir Ernie Chatfield, First Sea Lord, who was Flag-Captain to Lord Beatty in H.M.S. Lion during the action off Heligoland early in the Great War, paid the following tribute to the late Admiral: "A great and gallant seaman has passed away. He was the embodiment of the fighting spirit of the British Navy. He and Lord Jellicoe will be remembered as the two greatest British seamen of our age. They were in many ways different, but they had one thing in common—a determination to uphold the highest traditions of the naval service to which they belonged. History will record that they succeeded."

The elevation Of Lord Borrowdale, the late Admiral's son, to the House of Lords will necessitate a by-election in the Peckham division of Camberwell electorate.