GERMANY'S BATTLE-SHY FLEET
WILL IT FIGHT Oil NOT? (Bee. August 25, 0.0 p.m.) rm. - New X ork > A «S«sfc 23. ■ rhe 'New York TimesV Paris correspondent interviewed Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary for the United States Navy Department, regarding the possibility of a naval battle. Ho said: "Opinion is divided whether the Germans will bring uut their fleet as a. final desperate forlorn hope, or conserve the battle-flcofc intact ™ a in tbe P oace negotiations. .The Allies are more than ready if Germany brings out the fleot. The German Fleet is not mucli stronger than it was in 1914, because Germany has devoted all her industrial energies to providing munitions' for the army, and building submarines, rather tlinn strengthening the navy. The submarines are no longer a menace, but only an accidental danger to the ocean traffic. The Allies' effective devices have forced the U-boats to operate far out at sea, instead of near.the harbours, and thus have decreased their effi-ciency."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 289, 26 August 1918, Page 6
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