So the murderous German submarine campaign was tried
instead. This forced even the American Peace Party to change their
minds and save their country's honour by joining the War Party in armed
defence both of American rights and of the freedom of the world.
After another two years the Germans failed under water as they had upon
the surface; and when, in wild despair, the Kaiser ordered the whole of
his High Sea Fleet to try another fight, the final mutiny began. This
broke out at 5 A.M. on the 3rd of November, 1918, eight days before the
Armistice. It was not the German Army, nor yet the German people, that
began the Revolution, but the German Fleet, which knew that a second
Jutland could only mean the death of every German there. In its own
turn the Revolution brought on the great surrender, a thing unheard-of
in the story of the sea.
Thus, like the immortal Battle of the Marne on land, Jutland was not
only itself a mighty feat of arms but one on which the whole war turned.
CHAPTER XXVI
SUBMARINING
(1917-1918)
Jutland proved to all hands in the German Navy that they had no chance
whatever against Jellicoe's Grand Fleet.
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