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JUTLAND-As Seen 22 Years After
How Jellicoe “Kept The Seas" To Win The War
By Vice-Admiral J. E. T. HARPER, C.D., M.V.O., RN. (Ret.)
T THIS TIME-today is the third anniver- sary of the Battle of Jutland since the lamented deaths of the two great naval personalities
who controlled the British forces
it is meet that thought should be given to the after effects of that great naval action.
the
To-day 13 celebrated twenty-second anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. Both the in great leaders who took part the battle-Earl Jellicoe and Earl Beatty have since died. Yer this battle will continue to occupy the attention of the public and of experts as has probably no other battle of modern times.
Admiral Harper, the writer of this article, is the compiler of the official record of the Battle of Jutland, the author of "The Truth About Jutland," and co- author of "The Riddle of Jut- jand."
killed and wounded we also lost more than the enemy. Before Less than twelve hours elap forming a decision in regard to sed between the first gun and "Who won?" it is necessary to
the last at the Battle of Jutland consider what is meant by "vic
--a fraction of time when com- tory" in a naval action. Are pared with the four years of the we to put down the number of Grent War, but a fraction' shipa lust, the number of lives fraught with consequences. lost, and decide the question by After an interval of
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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Hongkong Telegraph.High Sens Fleet, on
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1038.
WHERE WILL WE PUT THE REFUGEE?
The Hongkong medical Authorities are to be congratu- lated upon the timely measures taken to prevent the spreading
Was
with
from
ly the effect of that great sca Other questions must first be fight, waged between the British asked and answered. Grand Fleet and the German Which combatant felt that he May 31, was defcated and avoided any 1916.
During this twenty years risk of a further encounter? much controversy has been Admiral Scheer felt he was de- waged. In the carty years after feated: he threw up the sponge, the War false versions of the left the ring, and never again battle, based on conjecture and gave Jellicoe a chance to bring partisanship, were given wide him to action.
circulation. It took severni Which fleet was left compara- years for all the facts to come tively stronger as a result of the to light, and without facts-and action?, all the facts-no version could be of real value to history.
**
Germany mastery at sea.
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£20,000 Poker
Parties"
HARRY GREEN
THERE'S a lot of peo- the well-known American como- ple around who claim dian, who is an export on poker, they can play poker. I claim tells you about the game which most of them can't.
And I
has brought an English squire into
£30,000 fawsuit.
The Betting
All who are in
The odds against getting one of these banda in the first five cards at poker are:
The net result was to increase
I can make cards pretty near- the margin of superiority of the Grand Fleet. Victory depends y talk (ask my friends!), and I of cholera and smallpox in this All those great naval com- more, far more, on the number began playing poker when I was
deck with the aces out, Colony consequent upon themanders who controlled the rival of ships ready and determined bit short of knee-high to a to continue the action than on don't play poker any more. No,
THE player to the left of this enormous increase in the re- fleets have now passed away; no
the number sunk. Both com-
blind can straddle it if he fugee population. Yesterday it fact in regard to the action it-
But that doesn't say that I am not wishes to do so by putting up two disclosed
special self is unknown. Let us, there manders wished for the control sir; I've given it up. that
retained of the
sen; Jellocoe
rendy and willing to tell you what chips, and the player to the left of fore, consider for a space, not
four, and so on; but no player can equads were working on the the details of the battle, about that control, Scheer failed to ob know about the game-the most him can straddle again by putting up As a matter of interest, I rate straddle unfess he sits next to the trains bound here from Canton which enough has been said on tain it. "He wins who can keep icntile card game in the world.
the Sea" Jellicoe kept the sea. and that
all refugee-bearing | both sides, but its immediate The immediate effect was, with Joseph M. Schenck, of Twentieth blind or sits next to the straddler.
Century Fox, as the finest player 1] The "Age," having opened the pot vessels
18 blind, has the privilege to raise it stricken und future effect. The actual the
out doubt, a victory for the Bri- ever came across. Master can be sum-
very, very good. In Hollywood I've after the others have come in. Kwangtung capital are going immediate results
tish Fleet.
seen him altling in at games where Each player having received his into quarantine anchorage while med up as follows.
What of the future? If Ad- there has been £20,000 in the pool. five cards, the player to the left of Admiral Scheer, the German
miral Scheer had thought that Nice work-if you can get it, and Joe the "Age or the last straddler, it their passengers are similarly i
Commander-in-Chief, failed in treated by local staff. These his object of cutting off and him eventual superiority, or even out at poker unless he has the cards. ante if he wants
another fleet action would give generally does.
any, must put up the same amount But even Joe Schenck can't make of the blind or last straddle as an to draw cards to are precautions which might overwhelming a portion of our equality, he would have sought You must have the cards and you improve his hand. If not, he throws
Ile found himself unes battle again and have been expected, and are the fleet.
again. But must know how to bet when you his cards into the centre of the fable obvious first moves in a cam-pectedly entrapped by Admiral Jutland taught Scheer that the bing your way you need to be a first-
have got them. If they are not drop- as a trash pile.
Those who wish to draw cards hav paign of prevention of disease. Jellicoe. He took full advan High Sea Fleet could not give class player not to lose at a lot of ing put up equal amounts in the But there are equally obvious tage of the foggy weather which
money.
pool, the dealer begins with the play- prevailed and benefited the
Poker is making news at the moer nearest him on the left and asks measures which might be taken weaker fleet; a fleet which wish-
ment because of this legal squabble him how many cards he wishes. advantage, such as the
ed to avoid action. Not only Jellicoe's victory at Jutland about cheques for £30,000 signed by
A player may discard any or all of young Mr. Henry Talbot de Vere establishment of a refugee cen- was he surprised,
but he was left Germany with these alter-clifton after losing a game with Lew his original Ave cards and ask for an tre in the New Territories which out-munoeuvred, and place, or he
may "stand pat." the Telegraph has long ad-j by the mist and later by the up a stronger fleet and again others.
The influence of the straddle dles I know Brice and Guinan. Good the pool are helped in the same way, vocated. to safeguard the darkness, he extricated himself challenge the Grand Fleet-a inds. Good poker players. The na after the draw, and the player to the general health and happiness of from difficult situations, und lengthy and expensive method ture of the case does not concern us, left of the "Age" must always make
thought of but I see that the result is said to de-
the first bet, even if the "Age" has the community. The suggestion finally took his fleet home fairly or abandon every
well intact.
again attacking it, and at less pend on whether or not they were passed out. If no one bets the "Age"
inkes the pool. that a refugee camp should be
Admiral Jellicoe, the British expense strike a blow at the root playing draw poker or stud poker.
Let's have a look at these two set
Britain's up in some suitable place Commander-in-Chief, had as a of
Now, with stud poker each player sea-power-her variations.
puls up an equal amount for the within Hongkong's borders primary object the retention of Merchant Navy-by using sub- So that we shall not be in any pool, or one may put up for all in
Germany followed doubt about it, I am taking the rules turn as in straight poker. appeals to common-sense, surely. the command of the sea, and this marines.
in Hoyle's the re- It is not proposed that the he attained. The issue at stake Admiral Scheer's advice, and laid down
cognised work on card games in the was sca-power, without which chose the latter alternative. States. Government spend a vast sum
With draw poker the player to the on such an enterprise; indeed, it the Allies could not carry on the The decision was a mistake; it
war. Our sca-power gone the showed lack of strategical fore- left of the dealer is known us the should cost relatively very little,
war would have been lost. sight. From the moment the de- "Age" and he must put up an agreed and would relieve to some extent Jellicoe wielded sca-power, and cision was made Germany was least the increasingly dis-it was casential for us to keep doomed. The unrestricted ille- turbing housing problem, be-it; Germany lacked it, and gal submarine warfare led, in- the loss of morale due to Jut- sides removing the danger to Scheer wished to wrest it. directly, to the entry of the land.
Jutland determined the future Was Jutland a British or United States as a participant in the health of the entire colony which overcrowding in the teneber of ships lost and in tonnage long
German victory? In the num- the world conflict. This went a of Germany; its effect was de- way towards bringing cisive and influenced all military ment areas brings. It in urged we sustained greater loss than about Germany's downfall, and political events which fol-
The dealer gives one card to cach that although this suggestion did the Germans. This result Here we see the external effect; lowed it. In its most emphatic player in turn, face down, beginning terms the palm of victory must with the one on his left. He then comes from an unofficial quarter, was largely due to the proximity what of the internal? and although there may be to German ports of the scene of The feeling throughout the go to Jellicoe and the Grand gives each one card face up. The ing must make a bet or throw down obstacles in the way of its adop-action, which fact saved at least German Fleet that, as a result Fleet. If Jellicoe had not been player with the first best card show- tion, it is at least worthy of two of the German Dreadnoughts of the Battle of Jutland, it would gifted with an essential clarity his cards. If he passes out, the next little study. As far as the from sinking in the open. In never again be asked to try con- and directness of thought; if he best cards bets or posses, and so on.
clusions in open battle with the had not been a brilliant strate- Any bet may be called or ralsed by player who still holds public knows the Government
Grand Fleet, went far to shake gist; if he had allowed himself cards. When the bets are equal an- has made no definite plans to kong might be expected to pro- the morale of the officers and to forget that he administered other card is dealt to each of those power mightier still in the pool, also face up, and meet a major refugee emergency vide. The problem of the Can-men. So discontent was born. sen-power-a
the betting is resumed, the player which may very well eventuate ton refugee is every bit as Then followed the monotony of than a fleet he might, as Mr. with the best cards, or the best pair, within the briefest time. If, pressing as that of the evacuees harbour routine; accentuated by Winston Churchill so succinctly if any, having the first say to bot or
in the interior of China, upon the privations due to the put it, have "lost the war in an pass out
a card in exposed before beiling for instance, the Canton bomb- ing raids become a matter or whom international funds are shortage of food then being felt afternoon." A defent, or even Į
being expended. If there are
in Germany, because as before the lack of victory, at Jutland is completed the dealer burles one card for each player, including, the
tinue to come into Hongkong at Colony spending money for the the rate of 3,000 or 4,000 daily, relief of war victims, how better cae placed his fleet where Ger- at sea without which we could
transport a single face up until each has four face up and one face down in the hole. The a situation will presently arise can they use their assets than many did not want it. This not feed the people in these pool the cards are denit one at a time
soldier in safety overseas.
flant bets are then made, and after a for the which will be wholly intolerable in taking care of theso un-monotony increased the discon- Islands, or
fortunates close to them? Per-tent.
The final result of the Great call the hands are shown from the standpoint of the re- haps if one of these charities
*** War was decided at sea, as all pool, the best poker hand winning.
am telling you that this fugee and tho permanent were to approach the Govern
The submarine warfare wars must be if the country con- scientific game. But there's a say resident. If there was no room ment for assistance in establish- Illegal warfare against defence- corned is dependent, na we are, ing-and it is very true-"You ent in Hongkong before, what willing a refugee camp of some sort less ship, now resorted to, could on seaborne trade for its exist keep the science: give me the cards."
more Important be the effect of perhaps 200,000 in this area 'something might
NEVER PLAY WITH ANYONE YOU result. The only alternative, as not improve the morale. The ence.
Honour is due to all those who DO NOT KNOW. of Canton's people trying to find far as can be perceived, is key to the collapse of the Ger sanctuary here? They may be proventing the entry of these man Empire was the revolution controlled the fleats at the Most people are not good at poker, glad to sleep in the streets terror-bunted people altogether in Germany, and that revolu- Battle of Jutland, but to history And only a few people are good at where, at least, they will be safe at some stage. And, that is tion was largely caused by the the battle has become synony- The rules and the variations bre can clean you right out in lesa ilmo from bombs. But that is not something to be avoided at all mutiny in the German Fleet; a mous with the name of Jellicoe not cry to understand. The expert
mutiny which had its birth in and with British victory.
than it takes to cough.. the sort of shelter which Hong-costs.
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amount as a blind.
Royal Flush... 049,740 to 1 to 1 64,074 Straight Flush,
4,105 to 1
FOUTH
Full Hous
Flushi
Biraght
Threes
Two Pairs One Pair
any other
604 to
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254 to
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daily routine and refugees con- people and organisations in this and at Jutland, so after it, Jelli- would have lost us that control exposed card.
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