EARL JELIICOE
GREATEST ADMIRAL OF MODERN TIMES Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 14. “ The greatest Admiral of modern times, a tactician second to none in olden or modern times,” is the description applied to Earl Jellicoe by Admiral Sir R. H. Bacon in his ‘ Life of Earl Jellicoe,’ published by Cassell. Admiral Bacon says: “ The result of Jutland was that the German High bea Fleet remained in harbour and watched us transport without interruption millions of men and millions of tons of ammunition and stores to whatever part of the globe we wished to deliver them. The Germans at all events knew in June, 1916, that their fleet was, beaten, and the groat torpedo offensive by which they hoped to defeat the British Fleet had failed.” A CRITICAL REVIEW LONDON, October 15. (Received October 16, at 10 a.m.) Mr Herbert Wilson, in a critical review, published in the ‘ Daily Miail, states: “Lord Jellicoe at Jutland had a great numerical superiority over the Germans, but more than once he deliberately declined to figbt to a finish. Wo are left to wonder whether the war might not have ended in 1916 if the German fleet had been destroyed and this had been followed by victory on the Somme.” [Mr Herbert Wilson is assistant editor of the ‘ Daily Mail,’ and is a wellknown writer on historical, military, and naval subjects.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22471, 16 October 1936, Page 9
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228EARL JELIICOE Evening Star, Issue 22471, 16 October 1936, Page 9
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