THE JUTLAND BATTLE.
BIG GUNS WIN. LIZZIE'S WORLD'S RECORD. (Sydney Sun Specials.) LONDON, July 13. The naval correspondent of the Tiniest says there is ample evidence that the big guns decided the Jutland naval battle. He adds: "The wildness eif the German aim in the later stages of the fighting after the precision they showed in the earlier stages was explainable onlv by their loss of nerve and morale. "They were unable to take the hammering calmly. British gunners used with deadly effect guns of the biggest calibres, inflicting the most severe punishment upon the Germans at 14,000 yards, when the weather visibility was against the British. The greatest'range I of" the Queen Elizabeth's 15 inch guns, which fire an aggregate of 27 tons of metal twice in a minute, was 20.000 yards. This is a world's record, and is almost triple the range of the guns used by Admiral Togo against the Russians in 1905."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14051, 22 July 1916, Page 3
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