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...strength in capital ships by destroyer or submarine attacks on our bases in those early days. They possessed, in comparison with the uses for which they were required, almost a superfluity of destroyers . . . and they could not have put them to a better use than in an attack on Scapa Flow during the early months of the 1914-15 winter.-The late Admiral Earl Jellicoe...
More effective as a hint to Hitler than this statement was an announcement made without comment by the British Admiralty that 42 warships of the Home Fleet had been ordered to its base at Scapa Flow, Scotland-that is, directly opposite Germany-for two months' maneuvers. On top of this, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sent Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to make a speech at Lanark, Scotland. There he strongly reaffirmed Neville Chamberlain's own declaration of last March that Britain might find herself drawn into any war breaking out in Eastern Europe. "The beginning...
...haired Mrs. Samuel D. Riddle, wife of Philadelphia's 76-year-old turfman, has a sentimental custom: when Trainer George Conway thinks there is an especially promising race horse in her husband's stable, she knits him a woolen pommel cloth. Knitted pommel cloths went to Crusader, Scapa Flow, War Glory. Most famed horse that got one was their sire, Man o' War. Latest beneficiary of Mrs. Riddle's knitting needles is another one of Man o' War's sons, an undersized three-year-old named War Admiral. Last week, War Admiral made...
TIME, Feb. 8, p. 36, the German High Seas Fleet surrendered to the Grand Fleet, not at Scapa Flow, but in the Firth of Forth. I know, because I was there...
TIME erred. Seven months after the surrender in Firth of Forth came the scuttling at Scapa Flow, where the High Seas Fleet was interned...