A TEMPTING POSSIBILITY.
An American navy fighting on the side of Germany against Austria, strange as it may seem, once occurred to Bismarck as a tempting possibility. It was in ISCS that he disclosed the scheme to an American journalist. "At the outset of our own late war," said the Chancellor, ("Austria was superior to us by sea, and jwe were not quite sure of Italy; so it I was proposed that ' should accept the sterI vices of some of your most distinguished I naval officers in the South with five j i thousand men and the requisite vessels." ', It was planned that the men were to come not as tbe "Confederate Fleet," but as private individuals. Bismarck went to the length of sounding the American Minister in Berlin on the subject, and the Minister wrote to Washington, which scouted the suggestion, and so this truly Germanic idea came to nothing-
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 137, 9 June 1917, Page 13
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151A TEMPTING POSSIBILITY. Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 137, 9 June 1917, Page 13
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