7 DECEMBER 1918, Page 3

The contempt of -the Navy for the toasters of "

Der Tag I " was pithily expressed by Admiral. Beatty in a speech to the company of H.M.S. Lion,' before the First Battle Cruiser Squadron went stately forth to sea, to shepherd the surrendered German ships into Scapa. The surrender seemed to him " a pitiable sight—in fact, a horrible sight. . . . We expected them to have the courage that we look for from those whose work lies upon great waters . . their humiliating end was a sure end and a proper end to an enemy who has proved himself so lacking in chivalry ; and that ead is beneath contempt."