The Washington times., 1920-01-25
Sims, Spotlight Lover,
Was Britain's Catspaw,
Asserts Noted Writer

ss~p~A~S 10 ssh wn~re h eanAr hS~&
sad what wa. the ssotise sekisd ID.
.Aost OF our paper. printed IT, Ia IL
no use for sisas 90 say today that
he never saw the dispatch.
IL came TO the press in the regular
way and no member OF Sims stan
would dare to pass IL without the
boss seeing a.. In letting that dis
patch 20 through Sims was disloysl
to Daniels. his chief, and dbsloyalty
In wartime is bad business. but some
body over there must have wanted II
to go through. so through IL went.
Sims put many thing through
for them over there. A naval officer
is supposed to steer clear OF politi-
cal questions. Admiral Bayly de-
voutedly> hated the Irish. He ordered
an american correspondent to be held
two weeks in London, ono. time, be-
cause he bore an Irish name. and he
did not think IL safe TO allow man
With such a name to be In Ireland
while there was an Irish convention
going on there.
From Queenstown, where Bayly
presided, came a fine lot of propa-
ganda against the Irish. IL was pure
bunk that our gobs did not get along
well with the Irish people. The irou-
BILE was that our gobs and the irish
Sot LOO we'll
Irish Girl. Liked Our Boys.
Five months after our hrst de-
stroyer steamed into Queenstown
forty-eight American bluejackets had
taken out licenses to marry Queens
town girls, which is pretty good so
fng for a small force In a few weeks.
Spbs on liberty could be seen waving
Sim Fein flags.
I didn't IMAM that thaxr x.arn an
strong for the Sim Feineds. IL
may have been they wanted to show
that they had no use for the "Limic."
There was but little mixing II up in
Queenstown between our gobs and
the British sailors. the Limies rot
being In sufficient numbers there to
give battles; but elsewhere. with the
British predominating, there were
constant mixups.
Our gobs may have brought hut
they did not use knives in fist nights;
and more than one of our fellows was
found in the gutter with n knife in
his back. The American COB loved
the English LIME" about as we'll
as the American doughboy love1 the
British Tommie-ask any doyGhDoy
how well that is-but according to
Sims our fellows and their fellows
were the loyingcst ever.
Propaganda always and Sims al
ways on that job. The British gang
of politicians, who were running the
British Empire. had every now and
then to prove to the public that their
selections for big jobs were grca;
men.
Says JeiIieoe Wonderful
Sims says Admiral Jellicoe was a
wonderful man. Jellicoe was put in
command of the British Great Fleet,
about the same time that the politi-
clans put that other flivver, General
French, in command of the British
Army in Flanders.
Jellicoe replaced Admiral Calla-
CHAN. l do not know who Callaghan
is or was, but his name sounds as IL
coe fight?
He has written a 6O0-pagc book OF
what he did in the war. Ii is a COO
page alibi for safety First"
He came within range of the enemy
with a tremendous superiority Of
ships. men and weight of metal over
the Germans. And what did he do
when be found himself within range?
Did he close in and clean up? He did
not
What did he do? To put il in his
own DELICIOUS phrase, ne opened Ine
range" To put IL in the language Of
the lalty. he increased the distance
between himself and the enemy To
put it in the language of the Amer
lean COB, he beat it. Ran away?
Well, what do you think?
According to tradition, the British
Navy is wonderful Invincible, yes.
But here was a mess. Well, they had
educated up the public before, and
could do 1t again. And they did. As
a result Of the propaganda which fol-
lowed the Jutland fight, there were
lowed the Jutlsnd fight. there are
pie over here who think that the Brit
ish won that fight.
Every naval man knows that the
Germans gave the British an awful
wallOpinR at Jutlnnd, md that Jelli-
GOES pnrt In II was disgrace, but
our Admiral Sims boosts him. and why