FLEET IN BEING.
GERMAN NAVY A FACTOR. INFLUENCE ON THE WAR. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 10. A representative of a German journal, who visited the German fleet, describes it as anxiously guarding the North Sea and the Baltic like a piece of armour covering a vulnerable spot. Without its aid Britain might have exerted such pressure as would have forced the Dardanelles and terrorised the whole of the Balkans into joining the allies. The German fleet had forced Britain to pay regard to America. " Without it," he says, Britain's chance of forcing peace upon us would be ten times greater than it is to-day. It i 8 not Germany s place to provoke a decisive battle at sea. Such a course would be heroic, but it would not be war."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16099, 13 December 1915, Page 6
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133FLEET IN BEING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16099, 13 December 1915, Page 6
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