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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1914.

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BY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM,

If there were needed any justification of the appellation of the "Bilent Service that has been bestowed upon the Navy, it were surely to be found in this that to the man in the street the Commander- in-Chief of the great Fleet which has melted into apparent nothingness, but whose influence is writ large upon the times, is simply a namo without a personality, In a detached sort of way the man who leads his newspapers has known that Admiral Sir John Jellicoe has filled various important posts at the Admiralty; that he has successfully com manded fleets during peace exercises; and that he has been regarded as one of the Navy's coming men. But his appointment to the supreme command of the Home Fleets a matter of hours before war was actually declared probably came as a surprise to most, but to those who have intimate knowledge of the man and his enpabilities there came the certain conviction that the control of that mighty engine of war, the British Navy, had been entrusted to the hands most capable of exercising it.

But what manner of inan is this who has suddenly come out of what may almost be called comparative obscurity to be the central figure in the awful drama that bas to be played to its grim finish in the North Beat Curious, is it not, that a nation whose very breath of life is derived from sea-power should know so little of the first of its sea eommanders? Not for nothing does the Navy work silently, shorn even of the pomp and circumstance of war which has made of our foremost soldiers popular heroes the while its greatest sea-captains remain unknown, unrecognised even by name.

1 first met Sir John Jellicos during the troubled days in North China, fourteen years ago, when, as flag-captain to Sir Edward Seymour, he acted as Chief of Staff to the allied force which made the first and unsuccessful attempt to relieve the besieged Legations.

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It ain't meaning to dissociate itself from contract It was a shrewd thrust sarily exposes the firm to the kem con- yours last? The grey-haired man's hand went up, and petition with other contractors; instead he gasped, "Touché!" Then came the firm will devote itself to international quaint little scene.

One workman near by waiting for his trading and industrial enterprises. tram expressed an opinion which reflected resignation of three Directors made it upon the grey-haired man..

Another necessary to rearrange the internal after a moment's gaze, bent forward organization and Messrs. S. Watanabe, towards our truculent little sparrow-cock. Fukui, and M. Fujise have been and whispered a word in his car. I have appointed as successors. They will direct rarely seen such pluck and misery com the business of the firm on their joint bined as I saw a moment afterwards on responsibility, whereas their predecessors But he never flinched. divided their sphere of management, in the boy's face,

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He called his little company to attention, saluted in their presence, and begged the The latter, grey-haired man's pardon. suddenly become the magician of the tale, shook bands with the boy warmly, coloured his compliment with the

Of course, I went down immediately quiet remark that there were, alas! and found him suffering severe pain from no Scouts when he was a boy, saluted; and went away. I know that he his wound, pain made the worse by the was waiting

for the Blackfriara utter misery of the surroundings and by tram, but he had an instinct shared by the uncertainty of everything. He wanted few. Otherwise he would never have been to know what I thought of things. the great cavalry leader that he is. Foolishly, perhaps, I tried to make the He left the rest of us wondering best of them and told him that I thought whether we most admired the boy or the wo were doing very well, and that there wasman. But we had no doubt that in these no doubt at all of our ability to cut our strong daye the Boy Scouts, if they are way back to Tientsin, or even to the coast, led as that little dozen under Boadicea supposing the foreign settlements to have were led, have come into their kingdom. Fallen. I don't think I shall ever forget Apart from mere official recognition. the contemptuous flash of the eyes he great is the dignity of their fellowship turned on me, the impatient remark: fo-day-Morning Post (London). "Tell me the truth. Don't lie."

I had thought to lessen the anxiety I knew he must have been feeling, but if I had known him as I learnt to do later on, I should have told him the plain truth straight out. He thanked me and, indicating his wounded shoulder with his oyes, remarked: "Hard lack just now!” That was all, but it was quite characteris- tie of the man himself.

I saw him afterwards at intervals, from the time the doctors told him that he would never regain the use of his left arm until months later when I went on board the Centurion in Colombo, and he told | me with more than a little pride that bo had played cricket for the flagship against Singapore on the way down and had unde 124 not out!..

Since then we know that his life's work has been to fit himself for the work he is doing now. It has fallen to him just when he is at the zenith of his powers, and if the Fates deal kindly with him that work will be done thoroughly, even ruthlessly as is necessary.

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