BATTLESHIPS USELESS
AN ADMIRAL’S CONDEMNATION. NURSES NEEDED FOR THEM. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received December 9, 9 a.m. LONDON, December 7. Admiral Sir Percy Scott, in an interview, said that battleships arc useless, They were kept in port during the four years of war, and when taken out were treated as glass, being . guarded by a whole flotilla of destroyers. Had the German submarine, officers been as good as the English, they would have gone into Scapa' Flow and sunk the lot. If we build battleships, we will have to build nurses for them. LESSONS LEARNED FROM WAR. TO BE LfSED BY ADMIRALTY. IN NEW CONSTRUCTION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received December 9, 9,25 a.m. LONDON, December 8. It is understood that the Admiralty ■ proposes to build in record time at I-ertsmouth the first of a new type of battleship, embodying the lessons learned during the war.
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Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14538, 9 December 1920, Page 5
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