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JUTLAND-As Seen 22 Years After
How Jellicoe "Kept The Seas" To Win The War
By Vice-Admiral 1. E. T. HARPER,
C.B., M.V.O., R.N. (Ret.)
T THIS TIME-today is the third anniver- sary of the Battle of Jutland since the lamented "I can drive it hundreds of miles deaths of the two great
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WHERE WILL WE PUT THE REFUGEE?
The Hongkong medical authorities are to be congratu- lated upon the timely measures taken to prevent the spreading of cholera and smallpox in this Colony consequent upon
naval
who personalities controlled the British forces -it is meet that thought should be given to the after effects of that great naval action.
the
celebrated To-day is twenty-second anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. Both the preat leaders who took part in battle-Earl Jellicoe and Earl Beatty-have since died. Yet this battle toll continue to Occupy the attention of tho public and of experts as has puo
robably no ether battle of modern times.
Admiral Harper, the writer of this article, is the compiler of the official record of the Battic of Jutland, the author of "The Truth About Jutland," and co- author of "The Riddle of Jut- land,"
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 "vie-
action.
Are
a fraction of time when com- tory" in a naval pared with the four years of the we to put down the number of Great War. but A fraction ships lost, the number of lives fraught with consequences. lost, and decide the question by After an interval of
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ly the effect of that great sea 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 defeated and avoided any High Seas Fleet, on 1916. During this twenty years risk of a further encounter? much controversy has been Admiral Scheer felt he was de- waged. In the early 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 several Which fleet was left compara-| yours for all the facts to come tively stronger as a result of the to light, and without facts-and netion? all the facts-no version could be of real value to history.
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All those great naval com- the manders who controlled the rival
The net result was to increase the margin of superiority of the Grand Fleet.
Victory depends more, far more, on the number of ships ready and determined
£20,000 Poker PartiesHARRY GREEN
THERE'S a lot of peo- the well-known American come- ple around who claim dian, who is an export on poker, they can play poker. I claim tells you about the game which has brought an English squire into most of them can't.
3 £30,000 lawsuit.
I can make cards pretty near- talk (ask my friends!), and I began playing poker when I was deck with the aces out.
bit short of knee-high
to a And I
enormous incrense in the' reflecta have now passed away: no to continue the action than onton't play poker any more. No,
was
and
the
the
prevailed and
well intact.
benefited
the
retained
Germany mastery at sea.
As
money,
2
lads.
Let's
Joo
The Betting
THE player to the left of this the number sunk. Both com-
bind 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 that special self is unknown. Let us, there manders wished for the control sir; I've given it up.
of the sea; Jellocoe
ready 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 squads were working on the details of the battle, about that control, Scheer failed to ob- know about the game-the most tlrn can straddle again by putting up
tain it. "He wins who can keep setentie card game in the world..
I rate straddle unless he sits next to the of interest, matter trains bound here from Canton which enough has been said on the Sea"Jellicue kept the sent. Amma Schenck, of Twentieth blind or sits next to the straddler.
that all refugee-bearing | both sides, but its immediate The immediate effect was, with Century Fox, the finest player 1||
the pot The "Age," having opened
to raise it to rill bilnd, has the privilege vessels from the stricken and future effect. The actual out doubt, a victory for the Bri-ever came across, Master
can be sum- tish Fleet.
very, very good. In Hollywood I've after the others have come in. Kwangtung enpital are going immediate results
seen him sitting in at games where
Each player having received his What of the future? into quarantine anchorage while med up as follows.
If Au 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, [ their passengers are similarly
Commander-in-Chief, failed in treated by local stafT. These
his object of cutting off and another fleet action would give generally does.
But even Joe Schenck can't matte any, must put up the same amount him eventual superiority, or even
onte if he wants to draw cards to out at poker unless he has the cards. the blind or last straddle as an are precautions which might overwhelming a portion of our have been expected, and are the fleet. He found himself unex- equality, he would have sought You must have the cards and you improve his hand. If not, he throws battle again and again. But must know how to bet when you his cards into the centre of the table
trash pile. obvious first moves in a cam-pectedly entrapped by Admiral Jutland taught Scheer that the have got them. If they are not drop us a
full advan-
ping
your way be a first- Those who wish to draw cards hav- paign of prevention of disease. Jellicon. He took
a lot of ing put up equal amounts in the But there are equally obvious tage of the foggy weather which gh Sea Fleet could not give class player no you need to measures which might be taken weaker fleet; a fleet which wish-
Poker is making news at the mo-pool, the denier begins with the play- ment because of this legal squabble or nearest him on the left and asks
cards he wishes. him how many as theed to with advantage, such
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 Vero establishment of a refugee cen- was he surprised, but he was left Germany with these alter-cutton after losing a game with Lew his original five cards and ask for an tre in the New Territories which out-manoeuvred, and akled first natives: she must either build Brice and Tommy Guinan and some equal number in her pince, or in
pat." All who are may stand the pool are helped In the some way. Telegraph has long ad-by the mist and later by the up a stronger fleet and again others.
I know Brice and Guinan. Good
The influence of the straddle dies vocated, LO safeguard the darkness,, he extricated himself challenge the Grand Fleet-a
Good poker players. The na after the draw, and the player to the iness of from difficult situations, and lengthy and expensive method-lure of the case does not concern us, left of the "Age" must always make general health and he
the Arst bet, even if the "Age" has the community. The suggestion finally took his fleet home fairly or abandon every thought of but I see that the result is said to de- again attacking it, and at lesspend on whether or not they were
takes the pool. that a refugee camp shouki be
Admiral Jellicoe. the British expense strike a blow at the root playing draw poker or stud poker. Passed out. It no one bets the "Age"
have a look at these two
Now, with stud poker each player set up in some suitable place Commander-in-Chief, had as a of Britain's sea-power-her variations.
borders primary object the retention of Merchant Navy-by using sub-
we shall not within
be in any puts up an equal amount for the Hongkong's appeals to common-sense, surely. I the command of the sen, and this marines.
followed doubt about it, I am taking the rules pool, or one may put up for all in
turn as in straight poker. in Hoyle's the re It is not proposed that the the attained. The issue at stake Admiral Scheer's advice, and as laid down
without which chose the latter alternative. cognized work on card games in the Government spend a vast sum was sca-power,
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 sea-power gone the showed lack of strategical fore-left of the dealer is known as the should cost relatively very little, war would have boen lost. sight. From the moment the de-"Ago" and he must put up an agreed and would relieve to some extent Jellicoe wielded sea-power, and cision was made Germany was at least the increasingly dis-it was essential 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-
directly, to the entry of the land. sides removing the danger to Scheer wished to wrest it.
Jutland determined the future Was Jutland a British or a United States as a participant in the health of the entire colony which overcrowding in the tene-German victory? In the num- the world conflict. This went a of Germany; its effect was de- ber of ships lost and in tonnage long way towards bringing cisive and influenced all military ment areas brings. It is urged
we sustained greater loss than about Germany's downfall, and political events which fol-
The dealer gives one card to each 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 ono 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 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- his cards. If he passes out, the next tion, it is at least worthy of two of the German Dreadnoughts of the Battle of Jutland, it would gifted with an essential clarity ng must make a bet or throw down Any bet may be called or raised by 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 passes, and so on. little study.
clusions in open battle with the had not been a brilliant strate-
player who still holds public knows the Government
Grand Fleet, went far to shake gist; if he had allowed himself cards. When the bets ore 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. sea-power-{}
with the best cards, or the best pair, which may very well eventuate ton refugee is every bit as Then followed the monotony of than a fleet-he might, as Mr. the betting is resumed, the player 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
to the put it, havo "lost the war in an pass out. privations due
It a card le exposed before betting for instance, the Canton bomb-
2
Germany
So that
States.
amount as a blind.
The odds against getting one of these hands in the first Ave cards at poker are: Royal Flush ... 649,740 04,974 Straight Flush Fours Full House Flush
Straight Threes
Two Pairs Ono Fair
any other
exposed card.
10 1 to 1 4.105 to 1
694 to
508 to 1 254
to
1
47 to 1
20 to 1 1/4 to 2%
ing raids become a matter of whom international funds are shortage of food then being felt afternoon." A defeat, or even
being expended. If there are daily routine and refugees con- people and organisations in this in Germany, because as before the lack of victory, at Jutland la completed the denter buries one As long an two or more are in the tinue to come into Hongkong at Colony spending money for the and at Jutland, so after it, Jelli- would have lost us that control card for each player, including the fced the people in these pool the cards are dealt one at a timė the rate of 3,000 or 4,000 daily, relief of war victims, how better coo placed his fleet where Ger- at sea without which we could
transport a single face up until each has four face up and one foco down "in the hole." The a situation will presently arise can they use their assets than many did not want it. This not
soldier in safety overseas. anal bets are then made, and after a shown for the which will be wholly intolerable in taking care of these un-monotony increased the discon- Islands, or
fortunates close to thom? Per- tent.
The final result of the Great cult the hands are from the standpoint of the re-haps if one of these charities
War was decided at sco, as all pool, the hest poker hand winning.
I am telling you that this is a fugee and the permanent were to approach the Govern
The submarine warfare wars must be if the country con-
scientifle game. But there's a may-
resident. If there was no room ment for assistance in establish-
:
in-unt it is very true. You can keep the science: give me the cards.
One in Hongkong before, what will ing a refugee camp of some sort illegal warfare-ngainst defence cerned is dependent, as we are,
moro Important thing: be the effect of perhaps 200,000 in this area something might less ship, now resorted to, could on seaborne trade for its exist
NEVER PLAY WITH ANYONE YOU Honour is due to all those who | DO NOT KNOW. of Canton's people trying to find result. The only alternative, as not improve the morale. The ence.
far að can be perceived, is key to the collapse of the Ger
Most people are not good at poker. sanctuary hera? They may be preventing the entry of these man Empire was the revolution controlled the fleets at the
and that revolu- Battle of Jutland, but to history And only a few people are good at glad to sleep in the streets terror-hunted people altogether in Germany, where, at least, they will be safe at some stage. And that is tion was largely caused by the the battle has become synony it. The rules and the variations are from bomba. But that is not something to be avoided at all mutiny in the German Fleet; a mous with the name of Jellicoe enn elenn you right out in less time
mutiny which had its birth in and with British victory. the sort of shelter which Hong- costs.
not enay to understand. The expert
than it takes to cough,,