The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-27

enough for Beresford. Relations soon
became so strained between the two
men that Beresford gave his subordi-
nate orders not to communicate with
him except in writing. A little later
occurred the famous come In and
paint" signal episode that served to
set the entire British navy at logger
heads Kaiser William had decided to
visit his uncle, the late King Edward
and orders were given for the chan
mel fleet to receive him In proper
style. This involved painting the
ships.
Scott, who is recognized as the
greatest gunnery expert in the British
navy, was at the time at target prac-
tice and he wasn't bit pleased over
the kaiser's coming visit. He signalled
to the cruiser Roxburgh: Paint wor;
appears to me more in demand than
gunnery so you had better come in in
time to make yourself look pretty by
the Sth." When Beresford heard of
this signal he promptly reported
Scott to the admiralty for gross In
subordination and conduct subversive
Of discipline" He further requested
the admiralty to supersede Scott and
issued a general fleet order repri-
manding his facetious subordinate
The admiralty-th is "Jacky' Fisher
while declining to supersede Scott
naturally could not officially disre'
gard such flippancy, and he had to
stand on his own quarter deck and
listen to stern reprimand read by a
junior officer, which reprimand was
published throughout the fleet and in
cidentally through the press.
Scott took his cruel like man and
said nothing. But now after five years
he comes back at Beresford with the
statement that he sent his signal q
couple of hours before the latter trans
mitted the official order to start
painting. Further he says. that Beres
| ford knew that 1t was the sort OF
lhumor frequently INDUCED in by com
manders who had no official instruc
tions, and he nails Fighting Charlie
by quoting similar pleasantries II
which the commander-in-chief him
self was wont to indulge. Scott also
declares that Beresford not only con
demned him unheard, but was actual
ed solely by desire to get him DIS
missed from his post.
l I'd w.
ton with another incident, wher
Beresford tried his hand at maneuv
ring SCOTS squadron and signalled
Third division turn together sixteer
points to starboard. Good Hope TURF
sixteen points to port The Coco
Hope was Scott's ship and he declares
that he and his officers saw at once
that if they obeyed the order they
would ram the cruiser Argyll. so the!
Ignored the order. Beresford evident
ly realized his error, for shortly after
4 wards he signalled: Did Good Hope
take in signal to turn to port? l
Good Hope took in the signal to turf
to port and rear-admiral thought Goo'
Hope was too near Argyll the rear
admiral was right In turning to star
board"
Scott now Indignantly asserts: al
officer of my standing does not thin
that ship is too close; ne knows
and it was unnecessary for Beresfor'
to tell me l was right in avoiding
collision At the time he contente'
himself with replying: Good Hop
took in signal to turn to port but di'
not go close up as there was DANCE
in such turn. AS the signal to turf
/ to port was hauled down before Goo
Hope had answered it concluded tina
the danger had been realized and Goo
Hope therefore acted on the signal t
the third division to turn to stal
board
Both Scott and Beresford know tina
everybody who read this signal woul
understand that the former was repr