Earl Beatty at Great Reception From Our Own Correspondent Edinburgh, May 1:
Earl Beatty was the guest of Glasgow at the end of last week, and he had reception of quite remarkable cordiality, as indeed might be expected from a community so intimately and vitally associated with the sea, with ships, and with shipbuilding. the two principal functions of his visit were at the University, where he was capped a Doctor of Laws, and at St. Andrew's Hall, where he received the Freedom of the City. And in every one of his speeches, it was remarked he said something of note, and paid no compliment that was not richly deserved.
His most important pronouncement was made at the civic luncheon. There were critics, he said, who told them that the capital ship was dead, and that we must have ships that would disappear under the surface of the water one minute and appear in the clouds the next. "I dare say they are right," he remarked: "but I do say that the time is not yet, and we cannot agree that the day of the capital ship is past." He clinched this with the words, "We consider that the capital ship is still a unit upon which the sea power of the empire of any nation is built up."
Remarkaste Ciype Fieures.
Reference was made by Earl Beatty, as a matter of course, to the close relationship which had always existed between the Royal Navy and the Clyde shipyards. But he gave some figures which will surprise those not intimately acquainted with our great shipbuilding river. During the war, 615 ships of war had been built on the Clyde, ranging from the battleship down to the destroyer and the trawler, and the number of ships refitted reached the remarkable total of 1263.
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