THE CAPITAL SHIP
RETIRING ADMIRAL’S FAITH. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 18. (Received August 19, at 12.50 p.m.) That battleships are still supreme is the opinion of Admiral De Robeck. Interviewed by the ‘ Evening Standard,’ he states that nothing happened in the Great War to modify his faith to the slightest extent that in tho next war batleships would justify themselves. If in 1914 the appliances now used had been available the battleships would have been from 75 to 80 per cent, stronger, and there would now have been no question of their indispensability. In the next war it would be found that the submarine menace would be non-existent, because tire dangers to submarines would bo too great to permit their extensive operation.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18716, 19 August 1924, Page 4
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