JELLICOE AND BEATTY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 16 March 1917, Page 4

JELLICOE AND BEATTY.

An English paper, in writing about Admirals Jellicoe and Beatty, states: The naval changes by no means please the whole of the Navy. As one distinguished admiral put it: “Jellicoe is the only man we have with experience of handling that greatly complicated machine, the largest fleet in the world. “It is as though you had taken away an experienced chess player (Jellicoe) and put in his place an accomplished draughts player. The two qualities are entirely dissimilar and call for different brain capacities.” It is curious, by the way, that both men are wealthy, which is somewhat of a novelty in the history of English seamen. Beatty married the daughter of the biggest shopkeeper in Chicago, Marshall Field, and Jellicoe the daugh ter of Sir Charles Cayzer, the great shipowner. Beatty is probably the first seaman of note to have a large steam yacht of his own, which has been used for hospital service. Jellicoe is quite humbly born. His father was a wellknown captain in the mercantile'huarine, having climbed up by his own exertions. It redounds well to the credit of the two admirals that without social advantages they stand where they do in the eyes of that very critical aggregation of men. the officers and bluejackets of the Grand Fleet.