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Died. John Rushworth ("Hell Fire Jack") Jellicoe,first Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, 75, Britain's Wartime Commander of the Grand Fleet, "Hero of Jutland"; of a chill caught at Armistice Day ceremonies; in London. Admiral-of-the-Fleet Jellicoe was told in 1914 that he alone had the power to "lose the War in an afternoon." The afternoon when the overpowering British Grand Fleet met the crack German High Seas Fleet in the Skagerrak entrance to the Baltic Sea proved to be May 31, 1916. To 19 years of accusations that he bungled...
First news of the battle was broadcast by Germany, whose fleet got back to Wilhelmshaven 24 hours before Jellicoe's sea-dogs limped in to their base at Scapa Flow. By the time the British Admiralty got around to contradicting the German report, Englishmen and the world at large were inclined to think that Germany had had the better of it. As far as damage goes, official figures still support their claim-British losses: 14 ships (112,000 tons), 6,094 men; German losses: 11 ships (60,000 tons), 2,551 men. But German Admiral Scheer was first...
...that not only the 29.700 Yorkshire acres which he owns but all the rest of Britain's broad acres shall become again the tidy landscape painter's paradise that they were in the days of Turner and Morland. To this end he has become President of the Scapa Society for the Prevention of Disfigurement in Town & Country. Fortnight ago the S. S. P. D. T. C. had its 4Oth anniversary. Stroking his graceful grey mustache. Lord Harewood made his annual report. His father-in-law's ministers had appointed a Select Committee of Sky Writing which decided...
...himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...
...Naval Conference Henry A. Hitner's Sons Co., potent Philadelphia dealers, had tied up at their waterfront yard awaiting the torch three battleships, 26 submarines and destroyers, 55,000 tons of auxiliary vessels. Ingenious British junkmen picked the best ships of the German navy off the floor of Scapa Flow, sliced them into $13,000,000 worth of scrap. An abandoned railroad is always a juicy plum. A big deal that junkmen missed was the sale of 199 World War vessels to Henry Ford for $1,600,000. He towed them through the Great Lakes to Detroit, melted them...