LORD JELLICOE.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1924, Page 1

LORD JELLICOE.

STUDYING THE PACIFIC. WELLINGTON, November 21. “ This man’s going Home appears to me to he of tremendous importance,” stated Air Floyd Gibbons (European director of the foreign news service of the Chicago “ Tribune”), referring in the course of an interview with a “ New Zealand Times” reporter to-day to Lord Jellieoe’s approaching departure for the Old Country. “It means this: That the greatest naval exjiert among the wliitc people of the world has been down here for four years jiast working on the problems of the Pacific. The knowledge that lie has thus gained may lie the means some day of saving our civilisation. That is not- stating it too strongly. “ I think that what Lord Jellicoe has learnt in the Pacific since 1919 is of immense value to tho Allied nations especially to those more directly interested (such as America, Canada. Australia, and New Zealand) in the problems of the Pacific. AA’e have in America numbers of our naval units that' steamed behind Lord Jellieoe’s (lag in the North Son, and they have, considerable respect for his capacity as a naval mail, and our interest in the maintenance of peace in the Pacific is just as strong as the British interest. “in consequence of this there will undoubtedly he a feeling in America that whatever benefits result from Lord Jellieoe’s experience during the lasL four years in the Pacific must he of enormous value to America as well as to England, in fact to tho whole of the white peojiles of the world, in the event of anything happening that requires our co-opcration, such as if Russia, for instance, which is in a great state of unrest, or any other Power, causes trouble.”