FESTIVE COMMANDER.
AMERICAN OFFICER IN DISGRACE
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph—Copyright) (ReceiA'ed February 10, 8.30 a.m.) LOfNDQiN. February 9. Captain 'E. T., Qualtrough, of the United Stdtes battleship , Georgia, was tried at Gibraltar and suspended from command of; the ship for six' months and placed m it' : reduced. pp^itibri orn tlie promotion, list on a "charge of drunkenness.
The mariy frieiidsj^fbp -met Captain QuaJtrOugh m AuOklarjd -* will regret tp, learn • that ; he . has got ?nto -disgrace m this way. 'Mentally and pbysically, he .Avas regarded as a splendid. type of man, and •he Afyas highly esteemed by all .wJio had the privilege of making his acquaintappfe. H^was regarded a atrictly abstemious nian, and the reason of big suagension fropj, pommftncll « >yill . therefore b, - the more j surprising t to. those who met. him at '- different functions. He t£pk pride m the United (States* navy, but Avnsi riot of t^e, boastful, kind.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11505, 10 February 1909, Page 5
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