SWORDS OF HONOUR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18412, 19 May 1920, Page 7

SWORDS OF HONOUR.

PRESENTED TO LORDS JELLIOOE AND FRENCH. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright, A, »ad N.Z. C»blo Association and Reutor. (Received May 18. 9.45 p.m.) LONDON, May 17. There was a crowded gathering at the Guildhall when Lords Jellicoe and French wore granted the freedom ot the city and presented with swords ot honour. Many distinguished personages were present. Lord French, replying to an address, said that the great lesson -of tho war was that indecision and vacillation were always disastrous. He considered that Germany's cardinal mistake was failure to seize tho Channel ports. Speaking at the Mansion House luncheon after tho ceremony, Lord Jellicoe said he anticipated live happy years in New Zealand, whoso people he and his wife already had learned to love. Emphasising the dependence of sea communications on the British Navy and the navies of the Dominions Lord Jellicoe uttered a warning against allowing the strength of the Empire navy to fade away until it became certain that the anti-war measures now being proposed would be effective.