GERMAN WAR SCARE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10954, 20 December 1911, Page 4

GERMAN WAR SCARE.

FLEET PvESTLESS. [Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Pp.ess Association*.) Berlin. December 19. The newspapers publish further "\Vilhelmshaven stories, and add that the reason the fleet remained at sea was not to guard against a sudden onslaught, but because it dared not enter the harbor, fearing to be imprisoned there. Received December 20. at 8.5 a.m. Berlin. December 19.

Herr Erzberger, leader of the Centre party, in a speech at Kiel, appealed tor an impregnable navy, declaring that the British fleet would he mobilised against Germany in the summer. Therefore Britain was branded as a nation that intended to make a plunderous attack on the German people. He added that Britain was Germany's only opponent on the globe. Received December 20, at 10.25 a.m. Berlin, December 19. Several policemen and others on the active list of the navy have been arrested at Wilhelmshavcn on charges of espionage.