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NEW LIGHT ON JUTLAND.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Long - Standing Myth
Exploded.
GERMANS NOT SUPERIOR.
Although more than fifteen years have passed since Jutland was fought, the actual damage suffered by the German fleet in that battle is still more or less a secret, saya Hector C. Bywater, the Daily Tele- graph Naval Correpondent.
I am now in a position to throw new light on the gunnery at Jutland, my information being derived from the beat possible source.
All damage and casualties ix the Grand Fleet were published with cut reserve soon after the action.
ed to Wilhelmshaven It was not ❘ ficant status of their post-war navy allowed to enter the harbour until German manufacturers have almost the external signs of punishment completely lost touch with advanced had been so far as possible removed progress in fire-control methods. or covered up. As is well known, They are, in fact, still working on no camera of any kind was allowed principles which British designers in a German ship. These regula have already dlacarded as obsolete. tions definitely prevented informa- tion regarding the extensive damage to the German shipa becoming public.
"The rapidity with which the British ships were repaired and re turned to service, as compared with the long time required for the re storation of the German vessels,
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EASTERN PORTS.
Details of Epidemic Diseases.
The health bulletin of Eastern
ports for the week ended Decem
is a clear indication of the relative ber 19, issued by the Director of amount of damage, and also of the Medical and Sanitary Services, effectiveness of British range-and-gives the following cases: ing and shooting as compared with the German."
Many British reports, including Admiral Jellicoe's own despatch, which stressed the excellence of the German shooting, were freely The Germans, on the other hand, published, but German official and
to conceal their did their utmost
private reports which contained own losses, and whenever this was equally high praise of the British not possible they minimised them. I gunner were auppressed for many
For the following entirely new disclosures I am indebted to one of years, and only recently have some That is of them come to light. the greatest living authorities
now the legend of superior German naval gunnery;
shooting at Jutland grew up, and why it has endured for so long.
00
"Many British officers, fresh from Jutland, stated that the first Ger-
man salvos landed near our ships. After the war German officers who
had been present at the battle told
Hits Scored by British. Actually our guns scored many more hits than the German weapona.
..
Plague. Bagdad: 1 case.
Cholera.
Calcutta: 11 cases, 6 deaths. Salgon: 1 case.
Small-pox..
Ragdad: 3 cases, 1 death. Bombay: 2 cases, 1 death. Karachi: 2 cases.
Madras: 1 case.
Rangoon: 4 cases, 1 death. Pondicherry: 2 cases, 2 deaths. Batavia: 1 case.
Salgen: 13 cases, 9 deaths. Amoy: 60 cases, 22 deaths. Canton: 6 cases. Shanghai: 16 cases, 8 deaths.
HONG KONG TIDES.
The German heavy ships received a me that they. had used the 'ladder'
total of 117 hits, as compared with aystem of initis! Bring; that is to
the 30 they inflicted: The casualty The time used is Standard, or mean say, one gun was
fired under the lists tell the same story. In big time of the merkilan of 120 deg. E. estimated range and deflection, one ships, apart from those sunk out 00h is midnight, 12hrs. is noon. The over, and the third at an inter- mediate setting,
It was then obright, the heaviest losses were:heights are referred to the datum of
British
Lion 1443, Princess the place and should be added to the the largest scale. Admiralty chart of Royal 100; Malaya 96, Barham 63. depths given on the chart unless pre- German: Dérflinger 183, Lutzow ceded by an asterisk (*), when they should be subtracted from the depths. 165, Seydlitz 159, Konig 72
served which of the three shots fell nearest the enemy, and the aim was adjusted: accordingly.
Dec. 30, 1981, to. Jan. 5, 1932.
The Personal Effect.
Other comparative figures are "In the British ship the shell even more significant During the that landed nearest created a last main battle fleet -action the only ing impression on the minde of the British ship to be struck at all was officers; those that fell wide were Colossus, which had two hits; but probably not seen, and certainly not ('In this phase the German battle- Bombay, Marseilies, London, Havre, remembered. Hence a general im-ships received in all 81 hits.
'created that Just before the main action open-wed. Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp.pression was at once
London. Apr.
Marseilles &
the German firing was unusually-ed our 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron Apr. Bombay, Marseilles &
Marseilles & London.
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Times.
Times.
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battle squadron, but did not receive single hit. These facts should finally explode the myth of super- Sat. efficient, German gunnery.
Sun,
*Jan.
Fri.
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01
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16
15 46 5,1 21
80 8.9
2... 02 16 3.04 bb 17 24
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Trade Result of Fable. No combat in history has ever Mon. been so cleverly exploited for politi cal and commercial purposes as the Tues. Battle of Jutland. To this day several German industries, notably the optical glass trade, owe their prosperity mainly to misleading re ports on this action.
SEGNI BECSE CEREZ,
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of four ships was under the con- Thurs. "German officers Informed me centrated fire of a whole German that they were impressed with the extraordinary. accuracy
the Both sides initial British salvos.. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
state practically made the same ments regarding each other's shoot. ing, with this difference, however: the German officers were not allow ed to publish these statements; whereas greater freedom was a corded to the British officers.
"When the German Fleet came in to surrender, a British officer was German astonished to bear the officers accompanying him in a staam pinnace make the same re-paganda, unconsciously abetted by marks on the excellence of the Bri- British naval officers, that the Ger H.M.S. Iron Duke, the name ship
was de of the famous class of battleships,|| tish firing which he had been in the man shooting at Jutland
the all of which held proud war records, habit of making about the German finitely better than that of | shooting.
Grand Fleet, several foreign Gov-ended her last voyage when she ernments still buying their arrived at Plymouth recently. naval fire-control equipment from With Marlborough, Emperor of German firms, apparently believing India and Benbow, and the battle- that since this gear proved its cruiser Tiger, she was condemned efficiency in 1916, German design ander the London Naval Treaty, and workmanship must still be but while the others were sent to Bupreme in 1981.
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"The truth cannot be obtained solely from personal impressions re- corded just after the action; it can be derived only from actual observa-
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are
This is a fallacy. Even if we has been granted another lease of concede Germany's superiority in life. She will only be demilitaris- 1916 in spite of the lack of evi-ed, and will later be used as a non- dence it does not follow that she sea-going training @hly. The work has kept the lead ever since. The of removing her guns and ending truth is that owing to the insigali (Continued at foot of next column)
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