WHY GERMANY FAILED
PRINCE MAX JOINS IN VON SCHEERS’ NAVAL CONTROVERSY. “WHY DID NOT THE NAVY TRUST ME?” (Received Jan. 31, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, Jitn. 30. Interest in Von Scheers’ theoretical great naval victory at the close of the war. with which the German Generals arc now consoling themselves for its loss, has been aroused by the evidence of Prince Max of Baden before the Reichstag Commission of Enquiry. Prince Max, who was then Imperial Chancellor, suggests that the plan failed because lie was not taken into the secret. He asks, “Why did not the Navy trust me? I would probably have advised the postponement of the attack until the terms of the _armistice were known. Then the undertaking would probably have succeeded,' hut I would have favored the plan, even if it involved the sacrifice of the whole fleet, for it might have proved a new Thermopylae, and stimulated, the fatigued nation to hold out until victory.” —A. and N.Z.C.A-
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10016, 1 February 1926, Page 5
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