One would specially call attention, in the report of yesterday's Fourth of July celebrations, to Admiral Gleaves' speech at' the American Club, and the words that passed between himself and Admiral Barret at Yochow. As Admiral Gleaves said the British Admiral's words are of the kind that live in history. The incident is attractive in itself, but the more in contrast with the distasteful things that have recently been reported of the instructions given to Admiral Sims when he took the American fleet to Europe in 1917. Now what Mr. Daniels said on that occasion we, do not exactly know, and what is more to the point we do not care at all. What we do Know and care about is the loyal and wholehearted support given by the American ships to the British, the friendship and confidence that prevailed between American naval officers and British, and the victory which crowned their united efforts. The same spirit prevailed then as on many other occasions in the past, as here again between the two Admirals at Yochow, and as, We are sure, it will ever prevail. It is not the doings of the mea who talk that we wish to remember, but the sayings of the men who act.
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