GERMANS AND THE FLANDERS COAST
A recent despatch to the Central News from Amsterdam stated that Admiral yon Tirpitz, former German Minister of Marine and the foremost advocate of Germany's submarine warfare, declared that while the Germans must keep the Flanders coast, the annexation of Belgium to Germany was not necessary and that a- solution of this problem could be found. Regarding, the political situation Admiral yon Tirpitz is reported as having said that all sorts of thing* might be possible, but that he did not think they would go so far as an agreement on an armistice by which the operations of submarines could be paralysed. He would not make a statement dealing with the reported- resignation of General yon Ludendorff, the first quartermaster-general, but said he refused to believe.that things would be allowed to go so far as to make it impossible for yon Ludendorff and Field Marshal yon Hindenbujg to gain a definite victory for Germany-
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 43, 19 February 1918, Page 3
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