Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 51 | Dummy Dreadnoughts of the British Fleet

Mummy nD Dreadnoughts d ht of the British Fleet Fleet I Y the tho use of dummy battleships the BY British fleet succeeded In I t- t I g the German naval forces for a al l jerIod period of several months Indeed it itH H- H 8 the sagacious manoeuvring of ot a aC C squadron of dumm dummy battleships tS dummy guns suns which deceived io l o Germans for quite a while in the rth orth Sea and finally filially decoyed them jato to the Dogger Bank battle which laded ended rather disastrously for them Ulem iJ battleships were also employed em em- 51 loyed In the tho naval na operations against io German and Turkish forces in the 5 with presumably good cf- cf lect But now that the dummy J battle- battle have served their purpose and jie Germans are In on the amazing and guarded secret of ot tho exist exist- Jice ce of such a fleet they have ha moro more aD c fg less lesa lost their value After Arter all Ch a ruse do de guerre has a very limitA limit limit- A JP life Ufe Its success must be achieved If early in tho the game otherwise it is I doomed to failure By providing steamers with wooden and canvas covers tho the British camou- camou flours fleurs succeeded in securing the general gen gen- eral cral outlines of well vell known capital ships of their navy nay Guns turrets tripod masts and other features were represented in convincing enough scenery By Bj making use of dummy battleships the British obviously gained a tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- advantage While tho the prototype prototype prototype proto proto- type was doing service elsewhere the sham battleship was exerting the desired desired de do- sired effect on the enem enemy As likely as not on more than one occasion the appearance of a fleet of or dummy battleships battleships battleships battle battle- ships discouraged the enem enemy from attacking attacking at at- tacking since in this war tho the establishment establishment establishment establish establish- ment of an apparent superiority of ot naval forces serves as a check to the enem enemy who does docs not attempt battle battlo In t the tho o face of such evident odds I