An encounter between Director of Naval Intelligence Reginald Hall and a Daily Mail reporter explains the strategic reading of Jutland. Hall rejected the reporter's description of the battle as a naval calamity. His analogy was that throwing someone out of a room and preventing their return remains a victory even if the effort gives you a black eye. The episode captures the difference between visible British losses and the continuing exclusion of the High Seas Fleet from effective control of the North Sea.
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Reginald Hall's black-eye test for victory
Hall answered claims of British defeat by arguing that ejecting an opponent who cannot return is still victory even when the winner suffers damage.