Admiral von Renter, 

 German sailor 



Renter, ADMIRAL VON. German 

 sailor. He was appointed com- 

 mander-in-chief of the German 

 naval force 

 which, under 

 the terms of 

 the A r m i s- 

 tice, had to be 

 surrend e r e d 

 to the Allies. 

 On Nov. 21, 

 1918, flying 

 his flag in the 

 battleship 

 Friedrich der 

 Grosse, he delivered up the Ger- 

 man fleet to Admiral Beatty, and 

 later accompanied it to Scapa 

 Flow. On June 21, 1919, Von 

 Reuter ordered it to be scuttled. 

 When taken into custody by the 

 British, he stated that he believed 

 from the German newspapers that 

 the armistice had terminated, and 

 he personally gave the order in 

 pursuance of orders given early in 

 the war that no German war vessel 

 was to be surrendered. He re- 

 turned to Germany in Jan. 1920. 



Reuters, LIMITED. British news 

 agency. Its founder, Paul Julius 

 de Reuter, was born at Kassel, 

 Germany, July 

 21, 1816. He 

 became a bank 

 clerk, and the 

 world -wide 

 organization 

 that bears his 

 name began in 

 1849 with a 

 pigeon post in- 

 stituted by him 



Baron Reuter, 



for the dispatch Founder of the news 

 of commercial 



news between Brussels and Aix-la- 

 Chapelle. Soon after the first 

 cable was laid between Dover and 

 Calais, Reuter becime a naturalised 

 British subject, set up his head- 

 quarters in London, 1851, and con- 

 verted the business into a limited 

 liability company in 1865. He 

 was made a baron by the duke 

 of Saxe-Coburg in 1872, and died 

 at Nice, Feb. 25, 1899, being suc- 

 ceeded by his son Julius Clement 

 Herbert (1852-1915). In 1916 the 

 undertaking of Router's Telegram 

 Co., Ltd., as it was then known, 

 was acquired for 550,000 by the 

 Hon. Mark Napier, Lord Glen- 

 conner, Viscount Peel, and Sir 

 Leander Starr Jameson. The offices 

 are at 9, Carmelite St., London, E.C. 

 See News Agency ; consult The 

 Street of Ink, H. Simonis, 1917. 



Reutlingen. Town of Wurttem- 

 berg, Germany. It stands in a fer- 

 tile neighbourhood on the Echatz, 

 20 m. from Stuttgart. S. Mary's 

 Church, a Gothic building, dating 

 from the 13th century, was 

 restored 1893-1901. It contains a 



beautiful font and a carved group 

 representing the Entombment. 

 The tower, 240 ft. high, is 15th 

 century work. There are a number 

 of manufactures, including cotton 

 and woollen fabrics, some tan- 

 neries, and a trade in wine and 

 fruit. Reutlingen became a free 

 city of the Empire soon after 1200, 

 and remained so until made part of 

 Wurttemberg in 1803. Pop. 29,000. 

 Reval. Capital and chief port 

 of Esthonia, and capital of the 

 district of Harju. It stands on the 



REVAL 



tributes. Among 

 its industries are 

 shipbuilding, dis- 

 tilling, cotton 

 manufacture, 

 pulp and paper- 

 making, and 

 furniture, the 

 Reval arms birch of the 

 Esthonian forests supplying for 

 the last named the finest veneer 

 and three-ply fabric in the world, 

 nearly three-quarters of whose tea- 

 chests are made and shipped to the 

 East by the famous 

 Luther furniture 

 factory here. The 

 chief exports are 

 potatoes, grain, 

 paper, furniture, 

 spirits, shale - oil, 

 and cattle. 



Rising from the 

 shore to the Dom 

 on high, rocky 

 land, where 



Bay of Reval, at the 

 mouth of the Gulf 

 of Finland, and has 

 an excellent har- 

 bour, sheltered by 

 islands and ice-free 

 for nine months of 

 the year. Connected 

 with Russia by the 

 Reval -Narva-Petro - 

 grad rly., and by 

 other lines with 

 Baltic Port, Hapsal, 

 Pernau, Pskov, and 

 the Latvian system, it has an ex- 

 tensive commerce, to which the 

 Russian transit trade largely con- 



Reutlingen, Germany. Garten Tor, 

 one of the gates in the old city wall 



Reval, Esthonia. Town and harbour, showing spire of 

 the Olai-Kirche. Top, left, old market place 



are the government buildings and 

 part of the ancient fortifications, 

 Reval presents a fine appearance 

 from the sea, but its principal 

 streets are narrow, steep, and badly 

 paved, and its numerous medieval 

 houses, though picturesque, are ill 

 suited to modern requirements. 

 Since Esthonia became indepen- 

 dent, the city, as the government 

 centre, has much increased in 

 importance and population. 



Founded by a Danish king in 

 1219, it entered the Hanseatic 

 League, 1284, and passed in suc- 

 cession under the control of the 

 Teutonic Knights, 1346, Sweden, 

 1561, and Russia, 1710. During 

 the Great War it was occupied by 

 the Germans in Feb., 1918, and 

 following their withdrawal in 

 Nov. of that year was visited by 

 a British naval force which 

 co-operated with the Esthonians 

 in repulsing the Bolshevists. A 

 commercial directory of Reval was 

 published in Esthonian, German, 

 and English in 1921. Its Esthonian 

 name is Tallinn. Pop. (1922) 

 125,000. See Esthonia. 



