5 MAY 1933, Page 40

- A GREAT Loss.

. It is impossible, however, to refer to the recent meeting of the Army and Navy Co-operative Society without adding an expression of 'sympathy with regard to the tragedy last Monday which resulted' in the death of Lord Knebworth. At the meeting tow which I have just referred Sir Frederick • Gascoigne . dwelt with ' some emphasis and- pleasure on the fact that Lord Knebworth, who had been elected Vice- Chairman, had studied closely the details of the business and was in daily attendance at the Stores, carrying out the duties of staff controller and superintending the functions of the house department and the works and maintenance sections of the business. It is scarcely a year ago that the Society suffered the loss of its Chairman, the late Lord Ebury, as the result of a hunting accident, and now this tragic death has involved the loss of the new Deputy-Chairman. - In ye*. many circles Lord Knebworth's death will ,be mourned. but . nowhere more than by the directors and staff of the Army and. Navy eci-operdtive Society.