EQUALITY WITH ENGLAND AT SEA.
GERMAN ADMIRAL'S VTEWS
Clime.'' Sydney "Sun" Speciil C»ble.) BERLIN, February 15.
Admiral Breusing, lecturing on the subject of strategy in an Ai-glo-German naval war, asserted that British strategy at present favoured a close blockade, the primary object being to safeguard England against starvation.
England, ha said, had only sufficient corn for a month, and must keep her sea routes open, which would be difficult to accomplish.
German submarines and torpedoboats, based upon Heligoland, could frustrate tho laying of mines, while fast cruisers could break the North Sea blockade, and, acting with Germany's allies in the Mediterranean, menace England's imports.
The future of the German people rested entirely upon the Navy.
Twenty years hence Germany would be unable to feed her people on her own produce, and would bo compelled to import.
If she had not then an adequate Navy she would become England's vassal.
Hor place was neither before nor behind England's, but at her -side.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14903, 17 February 1914, Page 7
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