NOTES.
•-. ■ % Lord Lee, one _of the British spokesmen at the Washington Conference, is. thoroughly conversant with the subject of submarines-, and despite his manner of aloofness, conceals the red blood of an adventurer beneath a demeanour of British imperturbability. When a hoy of Twenty, serving with the Hongkong Volunteer Forces, Lord Lee disguised himself as a coolie, penetrated Vladivostok Fort, and made complete drawings and a plan of the defences. Ten ; years later -he accompanied Roosevelt throughvtlie Cuban jungle, and when the world war began, 14 years after he had left the army as a colonel, he agaiA volunteered and his services gained him a peerage in 1918.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15119, 4 January 1922, Page 4
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