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Died. Rear Admiral Ashley Herman Robertson, 62, Vice Admiral commanding the U. S. scouting fleet, Spanish and World War veteran; of lung congestion following pneumonia; in San Diego, Calif...
...bottom. Her delicate racing sails had been replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran skipper. All the King's warships in Portsmouth, the French warship Bison, the King's yacht Victoria & Albert, and the fleet of yachts gathered for summer sail- ing in Ryde, Cowes, Calshot were signaling good luck, but the west wind almost tore their signal flags away and when Captain Heard and Ocean Pilot Henry Paul saw how the Solent looked they put into Ryde to wait for better weather. Sir Thomas Lipton...
John Rushworth Jellicoe, 70, Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, commander of the British Grand Fleet (1914-16), later first sea lord, Admiral of the Fleet and governor-general of New Zealand (1920-24), demanded to know why the thousands of British workers who sit idle receiving the unemployment dole should not be made to work for this money building battleships. "Treaties do not of themselves always give security and safety," he cried. "In the view of one who has been responsible for Great Britain's security in critical days, that security is gone...
David Beatty, 59, Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, son-in-law of the late Chicago drygoods tycoon Marshall Field Sr., commander of the 1st battle cruiser squadron in the Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), Lord Rector of Edinburgh University (1917), said: "We are about to commit the great appalling blunder of signing away the sea power by which the British Empire came into being and is maintained today. . . . The most enlightened sea officers with whom I talked have condemned the Treaty absolutely as one which will render...
Married. Mrs. Eleanor Stuart Blue, widow of Rear Admiral Victor Blue, U. S. N. who, as a lieutenant in the Spanish-American War was advanced in rank for "extraordinary and heroic service" in aiding the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor; and Rear Admiral Frederic Brewster Bassett Jr., U. S. N. (retired), also a Spanish War veteran; at Chatham...