A CHANGED OPINION HERR BALLIN AND THE FLEETS
GERMANY MUST HAVE A NEW BASE {Received January % 9 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Bth January. Herp Ballin, the well-known shipowner, and director of the Hamburg'Amerika Line, writing to tbe Frankfnrter Zeitung, admits that Britain has brought Germany's oversea trade to a standstill, the North Sea being easily blockaded. England's piratical pressure-upon. Scandinavia and Holland would have been impossible if Germany had a*proper naval base. She most in future seek a base beyond the North -Sea area. Herr Balhn, in November, said : "England is-already beaten, because she has- hidden her fleet."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 7
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96A CHANGED OPINION HERR BALLIN AND THE FLEETS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 7
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