your proceedings in this action."

What Jellicoe himself thought of those who fought so well under his
inspiring leadership cannot be said better than in his own words. "The
conduct of officers and men throughout the day and night actions was
entirely beyond praise. No words of mine could do them justice. On
all sides it is reported to me that the glorious traditions of the past
were worthily upheld. Officers and men were cool and determined, with
a cheeriness that would have carried them through anything. The
heroism of the wounded was the admiration of all. I cannot express the
pride with which the spirit of the Grand Fleet filled me."

_Results_. Jutland taught the German Navy what every one should have
known before: that whenever tyrants have tried to lord it over all the
world they have always had to reckon with the British Navy first, and
that this Navy has never failed to lay them low. More things were
wrought by Jutland than the British Empire thinks, and more, far more,
than other people, for lack of knowledge, can imagine. There was a
regular, unbreakable chain of cause and effect, and Jutland was the
central link.

To conquer their bully's "place in the sun" of the white man's empire
overseas the Germans built their Navy. But the Grand Fleet blockaded
it so well that the Germans clamoured for a fight to wipe the British
off the sea and to let the German merchant ships get out. Jutland
settled that. From Jutland on to the end of the war the German
bluejackets could never again be led against the British on the surface
of the sea. So the murderous German submarine campaign was tried
instead. This forced even the American Peace Party to change their
minds and save their country's honour by joining the War Party in armed
defence both of American rights and of the freedom of the world.

After another two years the Germans failed under water as they had upon
the surface; and when, in wild despair, the Kaiser ordered the whole of
his High Sea Fleet to try another fight, the final mutiny began. This
broke out at 5 A.M. on the 3rd of November, 1918, eight days before the
Armistice. It was not the German Army, nor yet the German people, that
began the Revolution, but the German Fleet, which knew that a second
Jutland could only mean the death of every German there. In its own
turn the Revolution brought on the great surrender, a thing unheard-of
in the story of the sea.

Thus, like the immortal B