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and small cruisers: Elbring Wiesbaden Rostock Frauenlob
Plus 2-3 torpedo boats. These figures alone suffice to prove to anybody who is unbiased that it was not the English, but our fleet that achieved a resounding victory. There’s great rejoicing in Germany! They’re holding celebratory masses everywhere and rightly so, because our glorious young navy has shown what she has learned, what she is capable of and how equal an opponent she is. How I wish we were at home to share these proud moments!
Column-length articles are being issued by Jellicoe, Vice-Admiral Beatty and Navy Minister Winston Churchill to pull the wool over the nation’s eyes and to revamp the English prestige, and yet between the lines there is fear. It’s all lies and even the celebratory masses that are now being organised in England too will not change the result, nor will the latest claim