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SECOND EDITION.
"West Australian" Office,;
3 a.m.
THE WAR.
THE GERMAN NAVYa
I kTERESTiC iREVELATIOIS.
THE JUTLAND BATTL.
SiBIAINEII POSITION.
CAUSE OF THE MIUTINY.
Copenhagen, Nov. 20.
Captain Persius, the well-known German
naval writer, ,has published iuthe Berlin
Tageblatt" some sensational revelaimons.
He says it was only the misty-weather and
Admiral Vow Scheer's good leadership that
saved the whole German feet from de
struction in the battle of 8kagerrack (Jut.
land), in June, 1916, otherwise the British
long range guns would hare smashed up
the lighter German ships. As it was, the
German losses were enormous
By the beginnmn of 1916 23 battleships
were disarmed owing to the scarcity of
metal, and by the beginning of 1918 only
dreadnoughts and battle crusers renasined
the Test mad been destroyed, and the metal
taken. Eighty.hree submarines were con
structsd in 1917, of which 63 were destroy
ed. In October, 1917, Germany had 146 sub
marines, and .i June, 1918, 113, but only
aboet 12 per cent. were actively engaged.
Thirty per cent. of the submarines were in
harbour, 38 per cent undergoing repairs,
end 20 per cent, incapacitated.
The crews were insufficiently trained, and
it wa.s very diffioult to get men during the
last months. The seamen regarded the
submarine as poitical stupidity. When the
nary was ordered out for a second Skager
rack fight the mutiny broke out. If the
seams? had obeyed innumerable lives would
'have been lost, and the seamen on Novem
ber'5 rendered, their country an invaluable
service.
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