GERMANY’S WAR COLLAPSE
ARMISTICE NEGOTIATIONS. ANOTHER NAVAL BATTLE WANTED. £PrS»» Association —By Telegraph —Copyright.) LONDON, January 27. The Berlin correspondent of The Times reports that an attempt by the German Naval Staff to spike the armistice negotiations was disclosed by Admiral Von Troth* in giving evidence before the Reichstag sub-committee which is inquirin g into the causes of Germany’s war collapse. He admitted that at an advanced stage of the negotiations, when Germany had alreadyundertaken to end the submarine war and the preliminaries to the cessation of hostilities had been arranged, the German Naval Staff vnas preparing to go behind the Government’s back and force a battle with the British Fleet. The project was abandoned, however, when the crews refused to fight.—The Times.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19700, 29 January 1926, Page 9
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