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Show INITIAL NAVAL MISTAKES HAVE BEEN REPAIRED Bpr!l Cable by ArTtacetseot With London Dal 1 Te eTpb led In eraatlooaj Ntrws Serv e.) LONDON Dec 6 Commandant CartvoT Belial s wrt ng to the fvening S and ara on epalnngr the Initial naval mis akea says In t al mistake of our naval s rategy was thai th4 extremities were badly de fended As the number of modern sh ps especially n th Pacific, was Insufficient, we ha e siDce had to divert a consider ablA force of sh ps The result s we now are In the ad van ageous pos t on we ought to ha e occupied very Boon after the war broke out. We are able to br ng home most of our modern eltlps and leave the greater part of the work abroad to o der vest s. Outside of Germany we rave st 11 to square accounts with four modem ships namely the bait e cru ser Goeben and the light cru sers Breslau Dresden and Karlsruhe Thp sooner t Is Is done the earlier we wi 1 be In a position to take full ad vantage of our Eea power by using t e o d sh ps abroad or anywhere beh nd the home sc een of modern ships wbl e Cer many w II not be able to u e a single one of her older hips to any purpose |