GERMAN FLEET.
• NEW YORK, June 30. The New York "World's" Weimar correspondent says that Admiral yon ;Scheer, the former commander of the German High ,Seas Fleet, interviewed, said the revolt of the German sailors last November upset a ilaval plan to attack the English coast to the Thames with the, High Seas Fleet, employing submarines ior Hank, protection.,^ It was hoped to draw the British Fleet from Scotland into a submarine trap. Had the British Fleet attacked in the first week of the war Germany would have been beaten.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9649, 4 July 1919, Page 8
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