THE BATTLESHIP.
USELESS FOR MODERN WARFARE B.v Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright., (Received Dec. 9, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. 7. Sir Percy Scott, interviewed, said that battleships were uselAs. They were kept in port during thc'fonr years of war and when taken out were treated as it of glass and guarded by a whole flotilla of destroyers. Had tho German submarine officers been as good as the English they would have gone into fcapa Flow and sunk the lot. If we uilt battleships we should have_ to build nurses for them.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
A NEW BATTLESHIP. (Received Dec. 9, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 8. It is understood that the Admiralty proposes to build in record timo at Portsmouth tlie first of a new typo of battleship, embodying the lessons of tho war.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16913, 9 December 1920, Page 3
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129THE BATTLESHIP. Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16913, 9 December 1920, Page 3
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