OUR FLEET'S LAST WORD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 177, 26 May 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

OUR FLEET'S LAST WORD.

\0 GERMAN VICTORY WHILE IT IS AFLOAT. The "New Yolk Time.-." hi a loader entitled "The British Fleet." after commenting on the debate in the House of Commons, observes: "In vain docs the Herman irresistible artillery smash every defence: n vain are the Herman soldiers slaughtered in puis i ! of the grandlose' megalomaniac German dream. The silent waiting of the floating steel bulwarks of the British Fleet wall the world against Germany. "She may win splendid and costly triumphs, wearing herself down with winning them. The real enemy, th ■ fatal adversary, remains. Germany is cut off from lite oceans. The scn- • ornc commerce that she built ,up with such marvellous energy and en terpr'.-o. the comprehensive t'esign which she Hung away so rashly, is over and done. with. "To Scandinavia and Holland- to rveh pettv limits has that worldwide interchange of products shrunk. Germany is strangled unless sue can f-Pift.it the l'.riti.-li Fleet."