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THE HONGKONG TE EGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1938.
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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.B.. M.V.O., R.N. (Ret.)
T THIS TIME-today is the third anniver- sary of the Battle of Jutland since the lamented
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naval personalities who controlled the British forces it is meet that thought should be given to the after effects of that great naval
action.
To-day is celebrated the Iwenty-second' anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. Both the great leaders who took part in the battle-Earl Jellicoe and Earl Beatty-have since died. Yet this battle will continue to occupy the attention of the public and of experts an has probably no other battle of modern times.
Admiral Harper, the writer of this article, is the compiler of the oficial record of the Battle of Jutland, the author of "The Truth About Jutland," and co- author of "The Riddle of Jut- land."
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more than the enemy. Before Less than twelve hours elop; forming a decision in regard to sed between the first gun and "Who won?" it in necessary to
-a fraction of time when com- tory" in a naval action, pared with the four years of the we to put down the number of Great War, but fraction ships lost, the number of lives Craught with consequences. lost, and decide the question by After an interval of
twenty doing a sum in almple aritheme-I Have Been to
"Have It your way, Mr. Beedic... only tell your wife, in the future, to stop borrowing eg ga and salt from mer
years we can view dispassionate- tic? No.
Hongkong Telegraph. High Seas Fleet, on
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1938.
WHERE WILL WE PUT THE REFUGEE?
The Hongkong medical authorities are to be congratu- flated upon the timely measures taken to prevent the spreading
was
Fulder £
ly the effect of that great sen Other questions must first be fight, waged between the British asked and answered. Grand Flect and the German Which combatant felt that he May 31, was defeated and avoided any 1916. During this twenty years risk of a further much controversy has been Admiral Scheer felt he was de- waged. In the early years after fented: he threw up the sponge, the War false versions of the left the ring, and never again battle, based on conjecture and gave Jellicce a chance to bring partisanship, were given wide him to action.
circulation. It took several
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.
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£20,000 Poker Parties HARRY GREEN
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lot of peo- the well-known American come- THERE'S
ple around who claim dian, who is an expert on pokor, I claim tolls you about the game which they can play poker.
has brought an English squire into most of them can't.
money,
And I
a £30,000 lawsuit.
The Betting
The net result was to increase
I can make cards pretty near- the margin of superiority of the Grand Fleet. Victory dependa 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 Colony consequent
deck with the aces out. the munders who controlled the rival of ships ready and determined a bit short of knee-high to a upon re-fleets have now passed away; no to continue the action than on don't play poker any more. No, enormous increase in the
sunk.
THE player to the left of this blind can straddle it it he fugee population. Yesterday it fact in regard to the action it manders wished for the control sir; I've given it up.
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-
of the sea; Jellocou retained ready and willing to tell you what chips, and the player to the left of fore, consider for a space, not squads were working on the the details of the battle, about
that control, Scheer failed to ob-i know about the game-the most him can straddle again by putting up four, and so on; but no player can trains bound here from Canton which enough has been said on tain it. "He wins who can keep scientific card game in the world.
As a maller of Interest, I rate straddle unless he sits next to the and thal all refugee-bearing both sides, but its immediate te Sea"-Jellicoe kept the sea. Joseph M. Schenck, of Twentieth blind or sits next to the straddler,
The immediate effect was, with Century Fox, as the nest player I
The "Age," having opened the pot vessels from the stricken and future effect. The actual out doubt, a victory for the Bri-ever came across. Master Joe is
the others come in. Kwangtung capital are going Immediate results can be sum-
very, very good. In Hollywood I've after he's the privilege to raise it seen him sitting 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. ave cards, the player to
lett of Admiral Scheer, the German
miral Scheer had thought that Nice work if you can get it, and Joe the last straddler. If their passengers are similarly
Commander-in-Chief, failed in treated by local staff. Those his object of cutting off and another fleet action would give generally does.
But even Joe Schenck can't make any, must put up the same amount of the blind or last straddle as an are precautions which might overwhelming a portion of our him eventual superiority, or even out at poker unless he has the cards. ante if he wants to draw cards to 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 when you his cards into the centre of the table
AS trash pile. obvious first moves in a cam-pectedly entrapped by Admiral battle again and again. But must know how to bet
Jutland taught Scheer that the have got them. If they are not drop- paign of prevention of disease. Jellicoe. He took full advan High Sea Fleet could not give class player not to lose at
ping your way you need to be a first- Those who wish to draw cards hav
a lot of ing put up equal amounts in the But there are equally obvious tage of the foggy weather which Germany mastery at sea.
pool, the dealer begins with the play- prevailed and benefited the
Poker is maiting 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. with 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 tre in the New Territories which out-manoeuvred, and sided first natives: she must either build Brice and Tommy Guman and some equal number in their place, or he may "stand pat." All who are in the Telegraph has long ad- by the mist and later by the up a stronger fleet and again atherow Brice and Guinan. Good the pool are helped in the same way.
The influence of the straddle dies the darkness, he extricated himself challenge the Grand Fleet ads. Good poker players. The na-after the draw, and the player to the vocated, to safeguard general health and happiness of from diflicult situations, and lengthy and expensive method ture of the case does not concern us, left of the "Age" must always maite thought of but I see that the result is said to de- the first bet, even if the "Ago" has the community. The suggestion finally took his flect home fairly or abandon every
again attacking it, and at less pend on whether or not they were passed out. If no one bets the "Age" that a refugee camp should bo
takes the pool, 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 up in some suitable place Commander-in-Chief, had as a of Britain's sca-power-her
Now, with stud poker each player variations. within Hongkong's borders primary object the retention of Merchant Navy-by using sub- So that we shall not be in any puts up an equal amount for the sea, and this marines. Germany followed doubt about it, I am talking the rules Pool, or one may put up for all in
turn as in straight poker. charms appens to common-sense, surely, the command of the
In Hoyle's the re- Music hath charms
It is not proposed that the he attained. The issue at stake Admiral Scheer's advice, and as laid down
alternative. Statce.
cognised work on card games in the Government spend a vast sum was sea-power, without which chose the latter
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 should cost relatively very little, war. Our sea-power gone the showed lack of strategical fore- left of the dealer is known as the 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 Jellicae 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. heit; 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 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. comes from an unofficial quarter, was largely due to the proximity what of the internal?
terms the palm of victory must with the one on his left. He then
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establishment of a refugee cen- was he surprised, but he was loft Germany with these alter-1 curton after losing a game with Lew his original five cards and ask for an
well intact.
amount DA a blind.
power
The odds against getting one of these hands in the first five cards at poker are:
Royal Flush... 640,740 to 1 Straight Flush. 64,074 to I Fours
4,105 to 1
Full House Flushi Straight Turces Two Paire One Pair
any other
604 to 1
508 to 1
254 to 1
47 to 1
20 to 1
14 to 2
face up. The 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
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 a 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 passes, and so on.
Any bet may be called or raised by clusions in open battle with the had not been a brilliant strate-
player who still holda 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 meet a major refugee emergency vide. The problem of the Can-men. So discontent was born. sea-power-a
mightier still in the pool, also face up, and 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 it any, having the first say to bet or
privations dus to the put it, have "lost the war in an pass out. for instance, the Canton bomb-in the interior of China, upon the
If card is exposed before beting 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
exposed card. daily routine and refugees con people and organisations in this in Germany, because as before the lack of victory, at Jutland is completed the dealer burica one As long as 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 ua that control card for each player, including the 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
did not want it. This not feed the poople in these pool the cards are dealt one at a time a altuntion will presently arise can they use their assets than many
transport a single face up until each has four face up and one face down "in the hole." The goldier in safety overseas,
final bels are then made, and after a which will bo wholly intolerable in taking care of these un-monotony increased the discon- Islands, or
fortunates close to them? Per-tent.
The final result of the Great call the hands are shown for the 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. fugee and the
I am telling you that this is a permanent were to approach the Govern
The submarine warfare wars must be if the country con-selentifle game. But there's a shy resident. If there was no room ment for assistance in establish illegal warfare-against defence corned is dependent, as we are, ing and it is very true-You can in Hongkong before, what will ing a refugee camp of some sort less ship, now resorted to, could on seaborne trade for its exist- keep the selence: give me the curds."
One more Important thing: be the effect of perhaps 200,000 in this area something might
NEVER PLAY WITH ANYONE TOU Honour is due to all those who DO NOT KNOW. of Canton's people trying to find resuit. The only alternative, as not improve the moralo. The ence.
far as can be perceived, is key to the collapse of the Ger-
Most people are not good at, poker. sanctuary here? They may be proventing the entry of these man Empire was the revolution controlled the flcots at the gled to sleep in the streets terror-hunted people altogether in Germany, and that revolu- Battle of Jutland, but to history An 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 it. The rules and the variations are not easy to understand. The expert from bombs. But that is not something to be avoided at all mutiny, in the German Fleet; a mous with the name of Jellicoe can clean you right out in less time
mutiny which had its birth in and with British victory.
thon it takes to cough. the sort of shelter which Hong- costs.
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