LORD FISHER DEAD.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1582, 12 July 1920, Page 5

LORD FISHER DEAD.

GREAT NATIONAL HERO. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 10.

The death is announced of Admiral Lord Fisher, after an internal operation, aged 79. Admiral Fisher suffered a long illness during the winter, and went to the Riverina. He returned to London apparently improved, and resumed correspondence in the press with great vigour. His fatal illness was brief, but its seriousness was evident from the outset, and an operation was performed last night. Lord Fisher was conscious to the end. A memorial service will be held in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday. The newspapers unanimously ac-

claim Lord Fisher as a great national hero. His relatives are receiving an enormous number of messages of sympathy, including telegrams from the King and Queen, and Mr Lloyd George. [Admiral Sir John Arlmthnot Fisher was born in 1841, and was a son of Capt. Wm. Fisher, of the 78th Highlanders. He entered the Navy in 1854, and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1860. He took part in the capture

of Canton and Peiho forts; obtained the Beaufort Testimonial; rose to be Hear-Admiral in IS90; served in the Crimean War 1855; China War 185960; Egyptian War 1882 (in which he commanded the "Inflexible" at the bombardment of Alexandria in 188-). He was appointed Director of Naval Ordnance in ISS6-91; Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1891; and was Controller of the Navy and Lord of the Admiralty from 1892 to 1897. He was Commander-in-Chief on the North American and West Indies Station between 1897-99; Delegate to the Peace Conference at The Hague, 1899; Commander-in-Chief at the Mediterranean Station, 1899-1902; Second Sea Lord of the Admiralty, 1902-3; Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, 1903-4; First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, 1904-10 and 1914-15; Chairman Royal Commission on Oil Fuel, 1912.]