"A GREAT MISTAKE."

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 239, 9 October 1907, Page 5

"A GREAT MISTAKE."

THE DREADNOUGHT CONDEMNED. A LESSON OF TSUSHIMA. [press association.] (Received Oct. 9, 8.44 a.m.) PARIS, Oct. 8. Admiral Girminet, interviewed in Paris, said that the battleship Dreadnought was a great mistake, especially as regards -armament, since --xie .Japanese won the Battle of Tsushima not by means of heavy guns but of shells of high explosive capacity, producing enormous heat and emitting immenso volumes of poisonous gases.