BRITAIN AND GERMANY
THE RECENT CRISIS. BERLIN, May 12. The first admission from any German official quarter that precautions were adopted on both sides last summer during the Morocco crisis emanated from Admiral von Tirpitz in a speech before the Budget Committee, when acknowledging with particular satisfaction Mr Asquith s declaration that an intention to attack Germany had never existed. The Minister remarked that the fact that precautions had been adopted by the military commanders, perhaps on both sides, was indisputable, but this was no proof of positive intention on the part of the Governments concerned. He thought too highly of the British Admiralty to believe that the idea of a German attack on Great Britain had ever entered in to their considerations.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3035, 15 May 1912, Page 26
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