OBSOLESCENT BRITISH NAVY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3650, 11 December 1920, Page 5

OBSOLESCENT BRITISH NAVY.

NAVAL WRITEE'S VIEWS. Received 9.50 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 10. Sydney Hall, writing under the heading "Our Obsolescent Navy" contends that it is totally unfitted for present conditions. "We were closer to ruin during the war than was known, confidence in battleships was shaken, and the fleets' of the Allies were impotent? whilst we hovered on the fringe of disaster. There is a firm belief s that if Germany had used submarines against our warships, instead of concentrating .on merchantmen, she would have won the war. Everyone knows the, trouble over the capture of the Emderi. The difficulty is the next war will be the combating of a squadron of submersible Emdens already at He concluded significantly: "The Germans' attacks on merchantmen annoyed neutrals, and this culminated in the entry of America nito the war and in Germany's defeat.