THE JUTLAND BATTLE
REAR-ADMIRAL HEARD’S VIEWS, EARL BEATTY DEFENDED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PERTH, January 8. Rear-admiral Heard, who is a passenger by the Osterley, on being interviewed concerning Admiral Bacon’s criticism of Earl Beatty at Jutland, said that with a line of fighting ships 20 miles in length it would have been impossible for Earl Beatty to have conveyed more information than he sent by wireless to Earl Jellicoe regarding the movements of the Germans. So long was the fighting line, and so disconnected was the British contact with the enemy ships, that it was only guesswork to say definitely what course the Germans were steering. Rear-admiral Heard, who has been superintendent of the Devonport Dockyard since 1922, served in the Great War.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19374, 9 January 1925, Page 5
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