A GERMAN "IF."
ECHO OF A NAVY.
THE BIG GXTNS TALK.
BERLIX, January 31.
Interest in Admiral yon Scheer's great theoretical naval victory at the close of the war. with which German generals are now consoling themselves for its loss, has been aroused by the evidence given by Prince Max of Baden before the Reichstag Commission of Inquiry. The Prince, who was then Imperial Chancellor, suggests that the plan failed because he was not taken into the secret. He asked: "Why did not the navy trust mc? I would probably have advised postponement of the attack until the terms of the armistice were known. Then the undertaking would probably have succeeded.
"But I would have favoured the plan, even if it involved the sacrifice of the whole fleet, for it might have proved a new Thermopylae, and have stimulated our fatigued nation to hold out until victory had been achieved."—(A and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 7
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