The Archive · 1935

A Great Sailor

The tributes to the memory of the late Earl Jellicoe have revealed that many people in China still recall personal association with him when fe was Star Captain to Sir Edward Seymour in the Boxer Expedition, For example a Danish Shanghallander remembers the late Admiral being entertained on the Danish flagship at' 'Hongkong. Another reader Proud of kindness shown to. him personally by the future Admiral dur-Ing the exciting times in" Peking. Appropriate observance of the funeral' ceremony which took place in St. Paul's Cathedral on Monday was adopted by the warships in harbour here. In HIS, Capetown a special parade service was held. The na-Uonal tribute in England has. been sufficiently emphasized by the burial in St. Paul's where he will lie close to Nelson and where is the Memorial Chapel to Kitchener who, before going to his death on the Hampshire, had a historic final interview with the then Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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