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Show CALLAGHAN ft. . f 1 Admiral Callaghan has been commander-in-chief of the British home fleets since 1911. To be admiral of the home fleets which in reality means the control of several fleets-Is fleets-Is to be at the head of the naval profession pro-fession in England. An Irishman, Admiral Callaghan nevertheless contrives to keep his shillalah up his sleeve. He is not on the admiralty's black-list of the contentious. con-tentious. When his term with the home fleet ends in December, he will not follow Lord Charles Beresford into the commons to try to win the doubtful honors of debate with men who know the Westminster range and are able to make better practice than the most heroic amateur. He belongs to no clique, and talks nothing but Hindustani to the interviewers who go to him for salty comments on naval administration. And in belonging to no clique he is in the latest naval fashion. Cliques are now broken, up, discredited, and finally wiped out. His Hindustani he learned in the early years of his career, and the no less complicated science of fortifications he mastered while he was still a boy. Since then he has mastered every branch of his trade, from gunnery to sea-planes. In China in 1900 he was one of the most prominent figures in the march of the allies to Peking, and himself commanded the British naval brigade. |