Beaten and Cowed.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 21 November 1918, Page 2

Beaten and Cowed.

GERMANY'S IGNO&LE NAVAL RECORD. SENSATIONAL REFLATIONS. • [electric tei.kgraph—COPYßlGHT.] (Per Press Association.) Received this day, 9.46 a.m. Copenhagen, November 19. Oaptain Persius, in the Tageblatt, makes sensational revelations concerning Germany's naval' lossop. Only misty weather and Admiral von Scheer's gcod leadership saved the whole fleet from destruction at the battle of Skager R.ack, otherwise the British Jong-range guns would have smashed up the lighter Germans. As it was the German lorses were enormous. By the beginning of 1918 28 battleships had. been disarmed owing to the scarcity of metal and by the beginning of 19(18 only the Dreadnoughts and bati tie-cruisers remained, thip rest being j destroyed and the metal taken. i Eighty-three submarines were constructed in 1917 of 66 were de--1 stroyed. k In October, 1917, Germany I had 146 submarines and in June, 1918, 113, but only abotit twelve per cent were actively engaged). Thirty per cent of the submarine/- were in harbour, 38 per cent repairing and 20 pel* cent ini capacitated. i The crews were insufficiently trained and it was very difficult to get men in the last months. Seamen regarded tine submarine warfare ms political stupidity. When the nnvy wgs out for a second Skager Rack a mutiny broke out.lf the seamen had obeyed, innumerable lives wmildj have been- lost.