The British Navy.
EGGSHELLS AMD HAMMERS WORD PICTURE OF NAVAL BATTLE. (By Electric 'Telegraph—Copyright [United Peeps Association.] (Received 10.20 a.in.) London, March IS. Newspapers comment on the passage in Mr Churchill’s speech in which he said “The true picture of a battle in modern battleships is not men in armour striking with heavy swords, but a battle of two eggshells striking each other with hammers.” Mr Churchill added: This fact suggests doubts whether enormous ships are not approaching the culminating phase.”
Experts, commenting on the speech, point out that submarines have almost the range of battleships, while torpedoes travel seven miles at a speed of twenty-nine knots, but it is doubtful whether it is safe to reduce the size.
OUR BATTLESHIP.
(Received 8.40 a.m.) London, March 18
Mr Churchill, replying to Mr Kin-loch-Cooke said that before the New Zealand was included in the Home Fleet, the Admiralty had obtained New Zealand’s assent.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 75, 19 March 1914, Page 5
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152The British Navy. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 75, 19 March 1914, Page 5
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