AN ALLEGORY.
ON JUTLAND BATTLE. NEW PRESENTATION OF FACTS. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Aug. 11. Vice-Admiral Mark Kerr writes in the Daily Express, saying that the situation before Jutland may be described as follows::
“A party of armed shepherds, protecting . their master’s sheep, had driven a wild lynx, which desired to worry the flock, into a dark cave. The lynx hoped they would send t-lieir dogs into the cave, where, owing to superior sight, he could kill them piecemeal. The shepherds rightly reasoned that the lynx could not pass them towards the flock without being attacked at great disadvantage in the open by the dogs, so they sat outside. The result was that the flocks were undisturbed- and the- lynx was starved into surrender. As Nelson would have said: Why fight at an immense disadvantage for no adequate, object.:-”’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 August 1924, Page 5
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139AN ALLEGORY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 August 1924, Page 5
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