SHIPS OF WAR.
"IN THE INTERESTS OF PEACE." INCREASE OF THE GERMAN NAVY. IS IT AIMED AT BRITAIN? By Telegraph.— Pre&j Association.— Copyright. BERLIN, 30th January. In the , course of the debate in the Reichstag on the German Navy Rill Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, said it was clea.r tl^at Germany's fleet was intended for use against Britain, who, wearying of her constant efforts io maintain supremacy of the spas, might strike before it was too latq. Admiral yon Tirpitz, Minister for the Navy, declared that it was a figment of the imagination tp suppose that Germany aspired to disputo Britain's su-* premacy of the seas. Germany's fleet was being built in tho interests of peace. Germany was not building against anyone.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 5
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122SHIPS OF WAR. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 5
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