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Died. Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 58, Great Britain's Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel; in London. He served as Rear Admiral in the battle of Jutland (1916), commanded the Black Sea and Caspian Squadrons...
Admiral Jellicoe commanded the War until after the Battle of Jutland in 1916, when he was succeeded by Admiral Beatty. He then became First Sea Lord at the Admiralty and Chief of the Naval Staff. In 1920, he was appointed Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand, a position which he relinquished last August...
...Charles has had a brilliant naval career. He served with distinction in the Battle of Jutland, was, for two years (1914-16), Chief-of-Staff to Admiral of the Fleet Sir John R. Jellicoe, was second in command (1917) to Admiral Sir David Beatty, the then Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet. Since 1922 he has been First and Principal Naval A. D. C. to the King...
Admiral von Trotha, once a powerful figure in the Imperial Navy, recalled with mixed satisfaction "Germany's victory over the British fleet" off Jutland. The occasion was the eighth anniversary of the famed battle. Said the Admiral: "England's powerful fleet, the instrument with which she placed the world at her service was defeated by the young German fleet." But he complained that the brilliant victory was not utilized by the Military Commanders for winning a decisive victory...
...Winston Churchill against Lord Alfred Douglas, second son of the eighth Marquis of Queensberry, for publishing in a paper called Plain English libelous statements. The defendant alleged that Mr. Churchill had plotted with the late Sir Ernest Cassel to publish a false report of the Battle of Jutland, with the object of creating a panic on the neutral stock exchanges in order to sell German stocks at a high price and buy British stocks at a depreciated value...