OBSOLESCENT NAVY.
AN ADMIRAL'S VIEWS.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—-Copyright London, Dec. 10.
Rear-Admiral 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 the capital ship has bean shaken. The fleets of the Allies were impotent, whilst we hovered 011 the fringe of disaster. There is a firm belief that if Germany had used her submarines against warships instead of concentrating on merchantmen, she would have won the war.
Everyone knows the trouble over the capture of the Emden. The difficulty in the next war will be in combatting a squadron of submersible Emdens already at sea.
He concluded significantly that the German attacks on merchantmen annoyed neutrals, and this culminated.in the entry of America into the war'and Germany's defeat.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1920, Page 5
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140OBSOLESCENT NAVY. Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1920, Page 5
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