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5 GERMAN HUM!LIA1T0I! IS MADE COMPLETE Fleet Surrender Has No Par allel in History. SCENE IS MEMORABLE ONE Correspondent on Battleship Texas Draws Vivid Ticturc ot Rc i markable War Event. THE MORNING OREGOXIAJf, 3IOXDAT, DECEMBER 30, 1918. M i jiiiiiiiiii!tiiiiiii .111 , : . -1 mi i Uvssss j riu !:.' ax .-rsssiwici t ejssssy -vfcn -.,---. -t-yrv-i i k,- V 1 i Copyriir1)t thr Xew Tor'k WorTd. Epeclal Cable- Published by Arrangement.) ON BOARD THE U. S. S. TEXAS. JFirth of Forth, Nov. 21. 1918. On this bewildering day, when the German Hoch See Flotte was surrendered to the allied navies, I am not going to write of the naval pageantry of it all, of great gray ships of war steaming in battle array, of the mammoth "hush" ship and frail torpedo-boats clipping the waters, of eubmarines proudly moored beside their parent craft. It was Just like any naval maneuvers or. better still. It resembled the funeral voyage at eea of some exalted personage. Not a siren heard, not a whistle blown. No. What gripped today was the shattering human psychology of It all. It has been a day ot astounding humiliation. I think the curtain really rose on this final act of sea war about the beginning of the present month. One flay Beatty, in his flagship. Queen Klizabeth ("Big Lizzie," or "Q. E."), dissembled his ship's company aft. They're Coming,' Says Beatty. "Men." he said, in that abrupt. In cisive way of his. biting his phrases at lightning speed and omitting his "a's" and "the's," "men, they're coming out at last. I always said they would. No stateness! Do your jobs, each one of you!" And the Admiral turned away to his cabin. A week later the commander-in-chief repeated this summons and advice. Two or three days ago he once again, for the last time, called Queen Elizabeth to attention. "Men," he said, "I've always told you they'd com-e out. But I didn't think they'd come out on a piece of string!" And abruptly he walked away with features drawn in disgust and' bitter disappointment. The fleet agreed. Admiral Ignores German. Next day Admiral von Meurer came over on the Koenigsberg to arrange the carrying out of the armistice. Beatty, robbed of his Trafalgar, pre served throughout an attitude of bit ter disdain. At the cabin conference Meurer would now and then break into broken English, addressing himself direct to the British Admiral. Entirely ignoring the German, Beatty would turn to his interpreter with a. "What does the Admiral say?" On one such occasion Meurer broke out: "Admiral, ve vers driven to this; ve vera coming out a fortnight ago. The men refused, you must know that there is no child life left in Germany under 5 years of age. They are all dying!" Nvy Breeds Bolshevists. Beatty exhibited about as much In terest in the child life of Germany as he might be expected to in the status quo in Peru. Whereupon Meurer went on, this time via the interpreter: "We are anxious to get these ships over here at the earliest possible moment." Beatty's eyes opened in unbelief. Meurer continued: "And we want you to take full crews on them, not re duced personnel as stipulated. The navy breeds the worst Bolshevists, and we haven't enough food for them if we take them back home. Keep all here!" Beatty sternly observed: "Tell the Admiral that we will abide by the ar mistice terms." Meurer next produced a document in German capitals and drawn up by the Kiel Naval Soviet of Workmen- and Sailors and the rest. It read: "I. the undersigned, guarantee that all German crews, either of submarine or surface craft, proceeding to Eng land for internment will be immune from all ill-treatment." At the bottom a space was left for Beatty to sign. Instead, the British Admiral took the document, tore it in half, threw it on the floor, and said: "Tell them they're coming to England. That's all there is to it!" Surrender Ik Unparalleled. I have given these two broadsides of Beatty's because they typify ab solutely the attitude of the Grand Kleet toward the late enemy. Icy courtesy, granite firmness, incredulity, contempt. There has never been any naval surrender in history like this. Spaniards, French, Russians all came out, in similar circumstances of certain doom, and fought their ships to the end. They might have fought these ships. they might have scuttled them, a few brave souls at least might have put up a death-or-glory "show" in the Waters of the North Sea. But no. "There's no use in it. It won't help us. So don't let's do it!" the; may have argued. British and American seamen felt as if their own profession was being held up to ignominy and they them selves indirectly compromised. Aamirai jieaity naa taken over command of the German fleet before it left Kiel on its final voyage. By wire less he ordered the German Admiralty this way and that, and the enemy oneyeo. i nave seen ail that wireles Take an example. "Admiral commanding Grand Fleet to cruiser Koenigsberg: Tou will stop using your wireless till further orders. Torpedoes Can Follow. German Admiralty to Admiral Beat ty: Regret one submarine of latest batch to sail for Harwich has not her j, torpedoes aboard as stipulated." , Reply from Beatty: You will send - on the missing torpedoes by the next transport. Again alter tne liermans had re ported the sinking of a U-boat on its way across to internment, Beatty wire lessed back: "You will forward a full report of the sinking, as it appears that same was avoidable. When a destroyer sank on the way across Beatty signalled: You will for ward a vessel of the latest type in place of sunken u-aJ. Occasionally the Germans sent out wireless about mine fields. Beatty would direct them on a clear course Once they were a couple of hours, be hind time at a rendezvous. Beatty wanted to know the reason why. "We are sailing around one of our own mine fields." was the answer. "That's all right." signals back the British Admiral. "We swept that field up ioua ago." .! Wag there ever such humiliation? "Want to know exactly how many officers and men are coming in each ship." says Batty. "You will report this Dy A. M. tomorrow." Beatty" Rale Supreme. For a whole week this wonderful wireless drama went on across the waters of the North Sea. How Mar coni has recast human intercourse! One might say, figuratively speaking, that not a man went to bed that week at Kiel without Beatty's permission. geiuxdiite faiirar and thomas majestic TODAY'S FILM KEA TUBES. Majestic Geraldlne'Farrar, "The Hell Cat." Star Mary Miles Minter, "Rose mary Climbs the Height." Sunset Charlie Chaplin. "A Dog's Life"; Fatty Arbuckle, "The Cook." Liberty Lila Lee, "Such a Little Pirate." Columbia Wallace Reid, "Too. Many Millions." People a Dorothy Gish, "The Hope Chest." Globe Dustin Farnum, "The Vir- ginian." Circle "Old Wives for New." Liberty. A story of pirates bold, of buried treasure, of a slacker who tried to evade government service by stealing a ship from a fine old sea captain, and a beautiful and spirited little girl who saved the situation these are the chief features of "Such a Little Pirate," Lila Lee's latest Paramount picture, which opened an engagement at the Liberty yesterday. The story Is unusual and dramatic in its development and it introduces Sinbad, an exceedingly clever orang outang actor, who shows considerable histrionic abiliity while acting with Miss Lee and Theodore Roberts. Rob erts, veteran character actor, has one of the best roles of his career in the part of old Captain Obediah Wolf, the lineal descendent of "Bloody" Wolf, a notorious pirate of history. Miss Lee acquits herself charmingly in the role of Patricia and Harrison Ford is excellent in the role of Rory O'Malley. The story is full of romance, adventure, and thrills, and has been I went aboard the Texas on the af ternoon of the 19th. The five United States battleships forming the sixth battle squadron of the grand fleet. New Tork, Texas, Arkansas, Wyoming and Florida, clearly distinguishable from all other dreadnoughts by their lattice masts, lay in the Firth of Forth. very nearly under the giant bridge spanning that waterway. as rar as the eye could see in every direction! there were dotted warships, wniie in and out coursed pinnances and launches. Arrived at the top of the accommodation ladder" the executive officer led me to the Admiral's cabin there being now no Admiral aboard. Scene Recalls Waterloo. "Make yourself comfy and then come right along to the wardroom. We're having a sort of a hop." I expected to find a score of officers, British and American, "bunny-hugging" to a piano. Instead I came upon a score of pretty English women, officers' wives and daughters, fox-trotting with British and American officers to the strains of a jazz band. In one corner lay spread out the most ravishing pre-war tea of cream and sugar and butter and white bread and delightful cakes and dain ties. ... And so Ve trotted to jazz for tne rest of the evening, on the Texas, while the Germans, in one winding cortege 20 miles long, were mournfully finding their way toward us, now guided clear of British mine fields by wireless, now hesitating at mine fields of their own long since swept up by us. The Duke of Richmond s ban at .Brus sels the night before Waterloo was nothing to this. One lived each mo ment of each minute. The dramatic note was apt to be intense.. What were those Germans doing, saying. thinking, out in the North Sea that night as we toasted "Der Tag" at din ner, and then repaired to a cinema show aboard? To get the angle one must bear in mind that a man's ship is his home, his life, his all. The eallor's atti tude, to his ship is one of awed affec tion; his primitive instincts impel him to defend her like a lioness her cubs. And here were the Germans sailing on. on, on to surrender, to degradation, to Nemesis while we jazz-trotted in un concern. ' Blackboard Is Offensive. In the wardroom I asked a Lieuten ant not long left Annapolis for his im pressions. "You ask me what we offi cers think of it? Why. just that!" And he pointed to a little blackboard hang ing on the wall opposite and marked "4 hours."' We want to see that durned thing taken down. And as soon as we get these fellows interned up at Scapa it will be taken down. For ten months, ever since the American battle squad ron arrived here, we've been kept at four hours" notice to proceed to sea. You won't appreciate just what that means. It means we've been tied to this ship by both feet and arms all that time. It 11 be a different world when that little blackboard comes down. Get me?" We discussed the Anglo-American rraval entente. "There's never been anything quite like it," observes" a tall Commander. "Hoist any old flag above us. We'll carry on together." "And the best part about It," chimes In a Lieutenant, "is that it's been done on iced water! Friendship that can stand that test is going to last eome!" Texas Gets Bulldog. A great bulldog ambling in inter rupts the flow of conversation. A score of hands etretch out. "Come on, Jimmy. Good boy!" "Jimmy's our mas cot." explains my neighbor. "Got him from Beatty. One night the commander-in-chief suddenly flashed out from the Queen Elizabeth: "Have bulldog for distribution. Will give him to first ship to pick up my message." " "Got him flashes back the Texas, first of the whole fleet. That's how we got Jimmy. Mighty proud of him, too." Next day, the eve 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 Kins, the Prince of Wales and SAITSnil IS "THE HELL CAT." THEATEI1. AT produced with an artistry that adds to Its attractiveness. "The Village Chestnut," a brand-new Keystone comedy. Is another excellent feature on the programme. Jazz Band Makes Hit. The Sunset Theater's "Victory Joy Jazz" band, which was presented to fandora yesterday as a special New Year's week musical feature, made an instantaneous hit. The personnel of the band is: Emma Crosno, the leader, who presides at the piano; Pres Lodwick. xylophonist; Charles Walrath, violinist, and N. C Parrish, who plays the drums and traps. Screen Gossip. Tom Ince opened his magnificent new studios at Hollywood on Christmas day with many of the celebrities of screendom on hand to assist in the fes tivities. The motion picture is to be extensive ly used in a campaign to increase the livestock supply, so diminished by war. A big producer wired to a certain big star: "I desire you to play the star part In my coming production of ' .. " "You are alone in your desire," was the laconic "collect" message of the star. Claire du Brey seems to be In de mand these days. She no sooner fin ished playing with Dustin Farnum than she went over to Goldwyn to play heavy in a Tom Moore production. Now it's Fatty Arbuckle who is plan ning to move his studio. However, he won't leave Southern California, which is almost the exclusive center of film production these days. Admirals Beatty and Sims. Admiral Rodman has gained a name in these parts as a wag, and he kept the King in undignified mirth throughout 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 dangrous cruise to Norway and back "Here we are, sir, all clean and sober!" "Rodman, ehowing the King the Royal Ensign flying for the first time in history above the Stars and Stripes, then asked: Entente Worth Keeping. "And now, sir. what are you going to do with us? Send us back home? We've learned your lingo, but can't Just get quite used 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 a battle equadron each year to your fleet, and you must return the compliment." Whereat Beatty chimed In, as the camera and cinema men began to bom bard the King: "This is my show, sir. and you re getting all the limelight. Then the King talked "ship shop" about oil fuel and then shook hands all around and stood at salute as the ma rine band aft played the British na tional air. "Three cheers for the King of England, megaphoned an officer from the bridge, a the last ehrill wail of the quartermaster's whistle had piped His Majesty over the side. Later Admiral Rodman received me in his cabin. A thtck fog and haze lay over the Firth. It had been so 11 days. "You're a guest," says Admiral Leveson, commanding the five greatest ships in the British navy, "pray like hell for fine weather." Rodman Has System. "What does he want with fine weather, anyway?" breaks in Rodman, 'Tie's going to write about this. He doesn't want to see it. Why, once in Japan I wanted to get a scoop on an eclipse, so I wrote two accounts before the event, one for clear weather and one for clouds, sent them on to New York, and then on the day wired 'Use account A.' or 'use account B," as the weather turned out. I think it was clouds." At nlg-htfall the great fleet still lay at anchor, the darkness twinkling with myriad lights and flashes as one ship signalled to another. One signal in particular, from Beatty on the Queen Elizabeth, was of wide interest. It warned the officers and men of the Grand Fleet that the methods in which the late enemy had waged war were never to be forgotten for an instant during the coming months of intern ment, and that no intimacy of any sort would be tolerated as between Germans and Britons or Americans. Then operation order 22 was circu lated. In most formal language it told us of the morrow's bloodless Trafalgar arranged according to plan. "A sufficient force will proceed to sea to take over at rendezvous X those ships of the German high seas fleet se lected for internment" .... Beatty Takes No Risks. Operation order 22 showed that Beatty was taking no risks, and that he had tied the Germans down to a very definite navigation programme. "What we fear mostly is a stunt by a submarine manned entirely by offi cers," explained a young American of ficer. "They might easily get a couple of our ships before being done in them selves. Any battle squadron that should be attacked has -rders to scatter. 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