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The article says (in several places) that the Fourth Fleet was disbanded in 1905 and reconsistuted in 1937. However, it also describes a "Fourth Fleet Incident" in 1935. Either the 1937 date is wrong, or there was another fourth fleet in existance in between 1905 and 1937. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.229.220.37 ( talk) 21:03, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
This is described as being kept a secret, but the Western newspapers seem to have got a very prompt and reasonably accurate description - the next day, 27 September, the Liverpool Echo ( BNA) gave a very precise death toll (one dead, ten injured, 52 missing) and named several ships including highlighting the damage to Hatsuyuki & Yugiri. Some of this is credited to an official communique via Reuters, which suggests that there was certainly no particular attempt to keep it all secret.
Was it perhaps that the structural deficiencies uncovered afterwards were kept secret? Or was it suppressed in the domestic media but they were more relaxed about overseas reports? Andrew Gray ( talk) 18:53, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
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The article says (in several places) that the Fourth Fleet was disbanded in 1905 and reconsistuted in 1937. However, it also describes a "Fourth Fleet Incident" in 1935. Either the 1937 date is wrong, or there was another fourth fleet in existance in between 1905 and 1937. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.229.220.37 ( talk) 21:03, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
This is described as being kept a secret, but the Western newspapers seem to have got a very prompt and reasonably accurate description - the next day, 27 September, the Liverpool Echo ( BNA) gave a very precise death toll (one dead, ten injured, 52 missing) and named several ships including highlighting the damage to Hatsuyuki & Yugiri. Some of this is credited to an official communique via Reuters, which suggests that there was certainly no particular attempt to keep it all secret.
Was it perhaps that the structural deficiencies uncovered afterwards were kept secret? Or was it suppressed in the domestic media but they were more relaxed about overseas reports? Andrew Gray ( talk) 18:53, 28 November 2022 (UTC)