WAR SECRETS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 December 1927, Page 5

WAR SECRETS

BRITAIN’S PREPARATIONS. VON TIRPITZ’S ALLEGATIONS. GERMAN FLEET AT JUTLAND. ,* CAULK-PEESIs ASSOCIATION—COFYEIUIi'I Received 10.10 turn, to-day. BERLIN, Dee. 1(5. “Sir Alfred Ewing says that room ■K) was the bast kept- war secret,” siaiu Aomiral Von Tirpitz wiien mtervlowed. ‘‘Here’s another, I am not in lire least surprised; Germany is not .surprised, for Britain had sy.steinatieally prepareu for the war against Germany. For a year even before the War she covered Germany with, a. network of spies. Wc were so native that we allowed captured British, skips to go, sept free. Desjyte the decoding of messages from the German Admiralty, the British fared none too well at Jutland, where theii lasses were thrice ours, though theii strength was double. Then the British admiral admitted that the Genua,n Navy, ship for ship, and gun for gun, was' immeasuireaibly superior.”