BATTLESHIP CONTROVERSY.
AN ADMIRAL’S REVELATIONS. By Telegraph.— Press Assn.—Copyright, London, Jan. 2. Reverting to the battleship controversy Admiral Sir Percy Scott writes that he received an invitation to give his views before a committee investigating the naval defence question. He declined to treat the letter as secret and algo refused to attend meetings, because he “hates being treated as an incompetent fol who was unable to see that the letter was merely a trap to muzzle him.”
He adds that Admiral Fisher set a trap for the Germans by building dreadnought. The Kafpy fell into the trap and started building dreadnoughts. He spent millions widening the Kiel Canal in order to get them through. If he had spent the price of one dreadnought on submarines his country address, or one of them, would have been Windsor Castle.—Times.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1921, Page 5
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