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BATTLE OF JUTLAND
SIR,—Sir Winston Churchill's verdict on the Battle of Jutland, quoted by Sir Robert Boothby, is far too sweeping to be accepted as the final verdict.
Scheer's object was to avoid being brought to battle at all costs. During the afternoon of May 31 he had the speed to do so, the low visibility to help him and plenty of sea room for his purpose. By employing some other manoeuvre Jellicoe might have brought the German fleet under fire for longer than he did, but not much longer, as Scheer would have at once turned away and been soon lost to sight.
An 'annihilating' victory was an impossibility un- less Scheer decided to fight it out.
But Jellicoe might have won a great victory if he had met the German fleet next morning when they were steering for the Horn Reef, because Scheer would not then have had the sea room to do what he liked or low visibility to help him.—Yours faithfully, W. M. JAMES Road Farm, Churl
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