EARL JELLICOE’S HEALTH

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1932, Page 3

EARL JELLICOE’S HEALTH

AN IMPROVEMENT REPORTED.

NO PUBLIC ACTIVITIES

(New Zealand Herald Correspondent.)

London, March 31.

Earl Jcllieoe has returned from Madeira to his home in the Isle of Wight feeling very much better than when he sailed two months ago, but he says that he very quickly becomes tired. All his energies have now to be directed to keeping well, and that will, he anticipates, be a whold-time job. Lord. Jellicoe arrived at Southampton, accompanied by Lady ■ Jellicoe, but Lady' Prudence is remaining at Madeira for a short while longer. On medical instructions, New Zealand’s former Governor-General will have to abandon practically all his public activities, and after Whitsun he will cease to be president of the British Legion. His long and severe illness evoked keen symapthy of everyone in the Royal Navy, for he is undoubtedly the most popular flag captain now living. And. additional sympathy was evoked inasmuch as his illness developed when he was on a special Imperial mission to Canada, partly in connection with the British Legion. “Few people,” writes Peterborough in the Daily Telegraph, “realise the terrific strain ,11c was subjected to during the war, first as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet for nearly two and a-half years, and. then as First Sea Lord during the most dangerous phase of the German U-boat campaign. Following those strenuous years came office as Governor-General of New Zealand, and, since 1928, as ‘president of the British Legion. The. zeal with which he laboured for the legion was probably the chief cause of his illness.”