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Show II .ID'S DUMMY FLEET OF WOODEN SHIPS ' '' H 1 . ' I B Above One c wooden ships beached to make a breakwater. Below Two more of the ships, one afloat and ons Kv partly submerged. j t England's dummy fleet is the greatest hoax of the war. For seven months a fleet of wooden replicas of i Great Britain's drcadnaughts fooled the German admiralty while the real dreadnaughts were being usea as con- K ' vcys. The decoys, riding at anchor in an accessible place, finally lured the German ships from their haven and I j K British, destroyers engaged them ina battle which, -was. disastrous to the Teuton flotilla, I WLi ' ' . |