Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-29

llfst OF the WnOle fleet Indt S now
We got Jimmy Mighty proud of him
too"
Next daS flleSeve of surrender, the
World representative was the guest
of Admiral Rodman on board his
flagship New York on the occasion of
the visit of the king, the prince of
Wales and Admirals Beatty and Sims
Admiral Rodman has gained d name
in these parts as a wag, and he kept
the king in undignified mirth through
ont as the latter inspected the ship,
though it is not known if he greeted
his majesty as he once greeted Beatty
on returning from a dangerous cruise
10 Norway and back-"llcrc we are,
sir all clean and sober!'
'Rodman, showing the king the
royal ensign flying for the first time
in history above the stars and stripes,
then asked;
And now, sir, what are you going
"a do with us? Send MS back home?
We've learned your lingo, but can't
just get quite sod to the tune
The king replied: "Of one thing
I'm certain. We must keep up this
naval entente so wonderfully begun.
We must attach battle squadron
each year TO your fleet, and you must
return the compliment"
Whereat Beatty chimed in, as the
camera aud cinema men began to
lombard the king: This is my show,
sir, and you're getting all the lime
light"
Then the king talked ship shop
about oil fuel and then shook hands
all around and stood at salute as
the marine band aft played he Brit
ish national air. Three cheers for
the king or England" megaphoned an
officer from the bridges, as the last
shrill wall of the quartermastel S,
whistle had piped his majesty over the
side
Later Admiral Rodman received me
in his cabin. A thick fog and haze
eleven days, You're a guest says
Admiral Leveson, commanding the
new greatest ships in the British navy
pray like hell for fine weather"
What does he want with fine
weather, anyway" breaks in Rodman,
hes going to write about this. He
doesn't want to see it, Why, once in
Japan | wanted to get a SCOOP on an
eclipse, so ! wrote two accounts be-
fore the evont one for clear weather
and one for clouds, sent them on toI
New York, ana hen on the day wired
Use account A. or use account BIZ
az the weather turned out. ] think it,
was clouds
No Intimacy to Be Tolerated.
AT nightfall the great fleet still lay
a anchor the darkness twinkling
with myriad lights and flashes as one
ship siPnnllcG to another. One sig /
nal in particular, from Beatty on the !
Queen Elizabeth, was of wide inter |
est. II warned the officers ana men
of the grand fleet that the methods !
Of which the late enemy had waged i
war were never to be forgotten for
an instant during the coming months
of internment and that no intimacy
Of any sort would he tolerated as be
tween Germans and BritOns or Amer
leans.
Then operation order 20 was circu-
lated In most formal language it
told US of the morrows bloodless
Trafalgar arranged according TO plan
"a stuff cient force will proceed to
sea to take over at rendezvous Y I
these ships of the German high seas
fleet selected for internment"
Operation order % showed that
Beatty was taking no risks, and that
very definite navigation program.
What we fear most is a stunt by
submarine manned entirely by Off
GERS" explained young American
officer They might easily get "A
couple of our ships before being done
in themselves ANY battle squadron
that should be attacked has orders to
scatter The rest of the line will con
tinue as if nothing had happened. But
if a solitary KUN turrct moves on the
German surfate ships, why the whole
burned lot win be blown out of the
water The whole business
makes you want to sit up and rub your
temples. First people I've ever met
who couldn't be even kicked into a
fipht!"
Five minutes later we were watch
ing A Princess of the Blood on the
cinema and discussing movie stars.
But this night of nights it was i'm
possible to got away from the bust
ness in hand. "One of our patrol
boats has picked them up $50 miles
east of May Island. Quite behaving
themselves" announces newcomer
from the bridge. And ones thoughts
going wandering again. Here was
the kaisers dream vanishing every
into the Scottish mists A
dying navy-a navy that had kept
Europe from sleeping peacefully in
its bed for nigh. twenty years-a navy
built for trouble, complete from its
intricate U-boat microphones to its
pretty women agents dotted around
the capitals of Europe. And this was
the end - steaming methodically to-
ward us out of the night in complete
surrender
Outnumbcrcd Three to One.
So dawned the day--a bloodless
Trafalgar in which forty-seven battle
ships and battle cruisers, thirty-five
cruisers and light cruisers, and 200 de-
stroyers of the proud fleet, totalling
perhaps 100000 personnel and cover
ing stretch of water forty miles
long by six wide, received the capitu-
lation of thirteen German battleShips
and battle cruisers. SIX light cruisers
and forty-nine destroyers--manned by
perhaps 1900 officers and men under
the nominal command of Admiral Won
Reuter- the real people in control be-
ing the lower deck.
The first ships left the Firth of
Forth in the chill mist of a. m. and
for the next four hours we passed out
to sea in one incessant stream, Beatty
bringing up the rear and weighing
anchor on his flagship at a. m.
those memorable hours
the commander-in-ch kept the
most intimate control of his armada
by wireless, Not ship of that vast
gray company changed speed or direc-
tion without Beatty's permission. We
sailed out line ahead in q dozen
clusters, each series OF vessels sep
arated perhaps by two or three miles
of water and each ship by some 500
yards. The speed was uniform-12