ADMIRAL' BEATTY’S BATTLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1596, 10 August 1916, Page 4

ADMIRAL' BEATTY’S BATTLE.

Lord Bores ford, speaking at a luncheon in connection with the unveiling of a memorial to the late Admiral Craddock, said we British were a rather extraordinary race. We never knew when we were defeated, arid .we never knew when we had won a victory. When we won a battle we lost it in the description of it. That happened the other day- in connection with the Jutland battle. However, (hat was past. Now we knew that, we had really won the greatest sea battle since the battle of Trafalgar. The result of the battle had been to make our command of the sea absolutely unquestionable, to make the idea of invasion impossible, and to put us in a position of being able to tighten our blockade. In speaking of Sir David Beatty, Lord Beresford said in the whole of the annals of the s.ea he doubted if we could produce a more heroic and brilliant ■fMit- Some people were inclined to doubt whether Sir David Beatty and his gallant . officers and men were not a little too hasty. Some people had the idea that he should have turned round and Jed the German Fleet to run after Urn. That was absolutely absurd. It it hud pot been for Sir David Beatty there jprould never have been a battle at