THE NAVY JUSTIFIED
ITS PURPOSE ACCOMPLISHED WASHINGTON, 10th December. Before the House Committee on Naval Affairs, Brigadier-General Crozier said that as long as the German fleet was bottled up and useless to Germany the British were following sOund strategy in resisting the temptation to bring about an engagement. No Commander-in-chief ought to rush his fleet against great forts or mines, unless he intended immediately to force a general engagement.^ The British Fleet had fully accomplished the purpose of its existence, oven if it never fought the Germans,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1914, Page 7
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87THE NAVY JUSTIFIED Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1914, Page 7
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