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...Opera Composer Richard Strauss. No. 1 Nazi Jew-baiter Julius Streicher, who always does the odd thing, presented a huge volume which he said contains all jokes current in Germany about the bridegroom. Eccentric Rear Admiral von Levetzow, Berlin Police Chief, gave "a fragment of a shell fired at Jutland," but rich Germans currying favor piled up $400,000 worth of presents...
During the War the British Government closed its mails & cables to Hearst newshawks, charging distorted reports of the Battle of Jutland. France and Canada followed suit. Forced into catch-as-catch- can methods of gathering War news, Publisher William Randolph Hearst stooped to rough-&-tumble. In Cleveland a telegraph editor on an Associated Press paper was found who, for a price, would smuggle AP news from abroad to Hearst's International News Service. Many another spy was similarly subsidized. The AP secured an injunction forbidding INS to pirate AP news...
...RIDDLE OF JUTLAND - Langhorne Gibson & Vice-Admiral J. E. T. Harper-Coward-McCann...
Biggest naval battle of the Great War, according to the Germans, was the victory of their High Sea Fleet at Skagerrak, May 31, 1916; according to the British, the victory of their Grand Fleet at Jutland, the same date. As even little Peterkin or little Wilhelmine might have pointed out, this could hardly be so, since the two battles were one and the same. Like other contemporary mix-ups, however, the action was so far from clean-cut that both sides could claim a victory and both sides did. Eighteen years after the event, Authors Gibson & Harper do their Allied...
Authors Gibson & Harper supply an excellent description of the Jutland battle, an enlightening series of pictorial charts. For those still interested in the Jellicoe-Beatty controversy they reiterate the facts, hazard a verdict: both were British seamen...