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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2575, 5 March 1915, Page 2

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VOX KOESTER ON THE SITUATION. PEE FREBB ASSOCIATION. (Received March 5. 8.40 a.m.) Copenhagen, March 4. Lecturing at the Kiel University., Grand Admiral yon Kocster declared that it was necessary for Germany l« # have an uneonquered axiny and navy' so as to secure favourable pcaco' terms. If the navy were to fight a, superior force it might be destroyed. "What would avail us," ho asked, "if each ship was accompanied to tho bottom by an emomy ship, -with perhaps a few more England would still haps a few more? England would still have ships left to attack tho German coast leisurely. The German fleet had shown the offensive initiative in attacking the English coast. The British Admiralty was evidently afraid of the German ships, and would not attack them."

Commenting on this, a writer says Yon Koester's explanation indicates that the, British and German, navy were built to wait for peace. Tlio situation has only one parallel, and that was when the French cavalry in .1.795 captured tho Dutch fleet. Yon Koester s navy will become a land force, and probably be captured by a land force.