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- From: "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
- Subject: Re: Jutland
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- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:56:06 GMT
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- From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
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- David Dix writes:
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- #Edward J. Rudnicki writes:
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- #>It is in the propaganda/public relations arena that things get interesting.
- #>Both sides claimed victory (of course :), but the accuracy of claims,
- #>and a few other factors, gave the PR win to the Germans for much of the rest
- #>of the war: the Germans claimed six major British units sunk, and this
- #>was confirmed. The British, however, claimed 4 or 5 battleships AND 4 or 5
- #>battle cruisers sunk. When the truth, one each, became known, this fact
- #>combined with the AUDACIOUS coverup caused extreme skepticism of the
- #>Admiralty's claims.
- #
- #Are you referring to the battleship AUDACIOUS that was one of the Royal Navy's
- #latest acquisitions when it was sunk on 27 October 1914 by a mine off the
- #north coast of Ireland?
- #What was the AUDACIOUS coverup? Did the admiralty not want the public to
- #know the battleship was lost? When was the coverup exposed? What was the
- #public's reaction?
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- Yep, that's the one. The coverup was that since she was a very new unit and
- it was early in the war, the decision was made to not reveal her loss. This
- might have worked, except that she sank in full view of a crowded passenger
- liner assisting in rescue efforts. Her loss was revealed as I recall only
- after the war.
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- Something like the "Official Secrets Act" was used to keep the newspapers
- from printing the story. They supposedly got their revenge by using the
- word "audacious" as often as possible: i.e. a German success was "another
- audacious victory" or something like that.
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- Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
- "War must be looked upon as a business, and subject, like any other business,
- to business principles. War is the business of destruction of life and
- property of an enemy.....The most deadly and destructive implements of war
- are the most humane, and the producers of them may justly be looked upon as
- humanitarians." ----- Hudson Maxim (the other Maxim)
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