OBITUARY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 71, 7 March 1930, Page 4

OBITUARY

VISCOUNT GLADSTONE. (United Press Associatlon-By CableCopyright.) (Received March 7, 9.55 a.m.) Obituary.—Lord Gladstone, aged 75 years. (The Right Hon. Herbert John Gladstone was created Viscount in 1910. He was the youngst son of tho Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and was educated at Eton and University College, Oxford. He was private secretary to hie father in 1880-81, and was later a Lord of the Treasury, Financial Secretary at the Home Office, and First Commissioner of Works lie was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910, and was first Governor-General of South Africa from 1910 to 1914. He defended his father’s mcmorv successfully in a libel case in 1927, and published his father’s reminiscences in the following year.) ADMIRAL TIRPITZ. (United Pres; Association—By Cabls— Copyright.) (Received 7. 9-45 a.m.) Berlin, March 6. The death is reported from Munich of Admiral A. F. Von Tirptiz, aged 81 years. Admiral Tirptiz was born at Kustrin, Germany, and entered the Prussian Navy in 1865. He was Prussian Minister of State in 1898, and thereafter devoted his energy to the creation of a navy capable of challenging that of Great Britain. In 1903 he became Grand Admiral of the German Navy and head of the Naval Staff. During the Great War he announced the submarine campaign against the Allies, but in the end disputes in Germany about the value of this caused his downfall in March, 1916 He then became the active head of the Fatherland Party, which was particularly hostile to Great Britain. He published “My Memoirs” in 1919.