HIGH HOPES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1914, Page 8

HIGH HOPES

IN A KEY 01? •• IF.'* GERMAN " FANCY GOODS."Admiral Breiising, ia the course of a lecture delivered at Stuttgart a few months ago, said :— "When war comes, Germany's position will be most favourable. Our destroyer and torpedo craft cannot fail to cause tremendous damage to the British ships, for we are iwed to night attacks. Further, the enemy will have great diflicui* ties to provide themselves with ammunition, while we shall have ours on hand. The moment will then come when many British ships, being destroyed iby our guns, many others detained in far-distant seas by tho protection of British trade, the two fleets will be equal ill numbers, From that moment 1 can confidently say the advantage will be on our side. Our torpedo boats, our guns, our shooting, are far superior to what is done in .England at present. Our guns can do terrific harm at ten miles' distance, and the British fleet will be disabled before they have even been able to attempt to fight us. Italy will have a double task. Her fleet will neutralise the French fleet in the Mediterranean, and her army will invade Egypt. The Italian fleet will be able to keep the French fleet under control, even without tho assistance of the new Austrian Dreadnoughts. Aa 'to her army, she has some 100,000 men. in Tripoli, which she can easily send into Egypt to exterminate the weak English garrison stationed there. Then Japan is only a make-believe friend and Ally of England. The Mikado's Government is tired of England's proceedings, and only too anxious to shake off the the British yoke. There is no doubt that, in case of a European wai, the Japanese fleet will sail to Australia, and seize both the Commonwealth and New Zealand."