A FALSE CONSTRUCTION.
It is quite-evident now that a false construction was placed a week or two ago upon the perfectly harmless movements of portion of the Home fleet after the summer manoeuvres. The concentration, of a portion of the fleet at Cromarty happened to concide- with a stag© of the Moroccan, crisis, but Ho account seemed to be.taken of the fact that on the same day sixty ships of the Nore division 'paid-off at Sheerness and sent their crews on leave. This at once destroyed the whole significance of the alleged sealed orders to Cromarty. This assumption was aS hopelessly ,at sea as most of the press conjectures as to the course and nature of the Franco-German conversations on Morocco.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 63, 12 September 1911, Page 2
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121A FALSE CONSTRUCTION. Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 63, 12 September 1911, Page 2
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