NAVAL PROBLEMS.
CAPITAL SHIPS NEEDED, VIEWS OF GERMAN ADMIRAL. By Telegraph—. Frees Association- Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 19, 11 40 a.m.) NEW YORK, January IS. The correspondent of the “ Chicago Tribune ” interviewed Admiral von Scheer. who said that the proposals throughout the world to abandon building capital ships was unwise It was true that submarines must be developed to the utmost, since the destruction if enemy trade affords n hitherto undreamed of defence, but a "rent fleet of Dreadnoughts was also needed tt. safeguard the coast lines Jtnd submarine bases Each weapon had its uses and each nation its own coast problems?, and each must adopt an individual programme. But the grea 0 lesson learned from the war was this: That the nations owning submarines were practically sec\?re against invasion by sea. Submarines, however, had not killed the capital ship
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16329, 19 January 1921, Page 6
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