A MIGHTY ARMAMENT
; , CAN SHOOT' OVER MONl\ BMNC. , ;WHAT THE DREADNOUGHT COULD DO. • OUTSPOKEN ADMIRAL. NAVAL POLICY TO BE SWAYED BY! POLITICS. .. Bt IBtBOKArn—PBESS ABSOCIATtON—COrTEIGnT. :(Reo,.Do'c. 19, 10.23 p.m.) ' V . London, DcOomber 19. , RoaNAdmiral Sir Porcy Scott (who . lately had trouble with Admiral Lord Berosford because ho spoko his mind, through the signal flags), speaking at a dinner in London, said that if tho; battleship Dreadnought was planted on tho Derby .racocourso (Epsom Downs), fifteen i miles distant from whoro thoy wore, ' tho. report of itlio guns would roach his hearers, While' tho path of the projectiles would bo 700 feet above the summit, of Mont Bl&rt'o ' (15,782 feet abovo Sea level);if Mont Blanc, stood between. Referring to tile 1 distribution of tbo Fleet, , Rear-Admiral Scott said that hereafter tho number, of ships. in •each Squadron aud, the bases 'Of the; squadrons/;were. likely to be charged according to the political kaleidoscope. • ■ • •• -■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 74, 20 December 1907, Page 7
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151A MIGHTY ARMAMENT Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 74, 20 December 1907, Page 7
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