AT THE TIME OF THE CRISIS

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 114, 13 May 1912, Page 5

AT THE TIME OF THE CRISIS

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. GEKMANT'S ADMISSION. BY WAT OF PRECAUTION. (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received 8 a.m.) BERLIN, May 12. The admission from any German quarter that precautions were adopted by both sides Past summer dmring the Morocco crisis emanated from Admiral yon Tirpitz (Minister for Naval Affairs) in a speech before tie Budget Committee, ! acknowledging, with particular Batisfaci tion. Mr. Asquith's deolaration that an intention to attack Germany had never existed. Admiral Tirpitz remarked that the fact that precautions were adopted by mili- | tary commanders, perhaps on both sides, was indisputable, .but this was no proof of positive intention on the part of the Governments concerned. He thought too highly of the British Admiralty to believe that the idea of a German attack on Britain had ever entered into its considerations.