4 JUNE 1927, Page 2

The Harper Report has at kit been published, but it

will seem very dull to those who are anxious for naval scandal as it contains only a chronological record of facts at the Battle of Jutland. All the spice which might have been found sequestered in its formal' pages had already been extracted and put to its phblic uses in Admiral Harper's book. We publish elsewhere this week a notice of that book, and would only say here that whatever opinions may be forthed of the rival schools of naval strategy represented by Lord Jellicoe and Lord Beatty, the :nation would lose all sense of proportion if it forgot that, in the - noble Roman phrase, they both " deServed well of the Republic.'!

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