GERMANY AS A SEA POWER.
BERLIN, July 6.
At a banquet at Wilhelmshaven of the Officers' Club, subsequent to the launching of the warship Wittelsbach, the Emperor William, in response to a toast proposed by Prince Rupprecht, of Bavaria, to "the head of the German navy," made some emphatic declarations upon the subject of Germany as a sea power, asserting that the navy was indispensable to Germany's greatness, and that it had been demonstrated that no great decision could ever again be reached in respect to the sea without consulting with Germany and the German Emperor. "The German- people," he said, "did not conquer and shed blood thirty years ago in order to be thrust aside when great foreign problems are being settled. If that should happen, then the influence of the German. Empire as a world power would be at an end. lam not to allow matters to reach such a.pass. It is the Emperor's duty and highest privilege to employ suitable and even the sharpest methods to prevent it." The. German Emperor expressed it i»s his opinion that in this matter . the Princes of Germany and the entire people were closely massed . behind him. ,*■..■'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 180, 31 July 1900, Page 3
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