TRUE NOW AS THEN
In these days when so much depends upon the British Navy, special interest will be taken in a quotation from a letter written in 1922 by Admiral J. de Robeck, who commanded the Allied Fleet at the Dardanelles, to Captain E. Mills Joyce, A.M., a prominent member of three Antarctic expeditions and hero of the 1900 miles sledge journey in laying depots for Shackleton. “Do not forget,” wrote Admiral de Robeck, “that ‘he who rules the sea commands the trade of the world; he who commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, hence the world itself.’ Those words of Sir Walter Raleigh 300 years old are as true to-day as they were then. It will be always necessary to remind the people of our Empire that it was the British Navy who will save them." Captain Joyce, who died in London recently, and whose wife is now in Wellington, was awarded the Albert Medal for his work in the Scott and Shackleton expeditions.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24685, 14 August 1941, Page 13
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172TRUE NOW AS THEN Otago Daily Times, Issue 24685, 14 August 1941, Page 13
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