heavily, losing, besides their ships, 649 officers and men killed or drowned and 361 captured (140 were wounded), Commander Groos finds satisfaction in the poor quality of the British shells many of which did not explode, he avers. But the shooting of the British must have been remarkably good with the other shells. He puts the blame of the defeat off Heligoland upon the Kaiser. who withheld the High Sea Fleet until "the exact time to use it with all its force." As the story of badly handled German sea power unfolds, it will doubtless be often maintained that the Kaiser meddled too much with his Admirals and was responsible for misdirected effort and for dallying with opportunity.
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