THE NAVY’S POWER.
BATTLESHIP OR SUBMARINE? Admiral Sir Percy Scott is still carrying on a vigorous campaign against the battleship. In one of his latest articles he declares that, if the Germans had acted earlier on the advice of Admiral von Tirpitz in undertaking unrestricted submarine warfare they would have won the war. This, he says, is one of the outstanding lessons of that great conflict. The Germans ought to have won the war in 1914, as their submarines , could have come into Scapa Flow and sunk our ships. The harbor was entirely unprotected. Their submarines did not sink our fleet. Why? It may have been that they had not got the men with sufficient pluck to undertake the job, or it may have been, as Jellicoe explained to me, that the German brain could not make itself believe that we were such idiots as to have our ships in an unprotected harbor. Our submarines would have willingly undertaken such a job. They carried much more dangerous enterprise's than sinking a fleet in an ljarbor
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1921, Page 12
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175THE NAVY’S POWER. Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1921, Page 12
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