GERMANS-MODESTY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14195, 6 June 1916, Page 6

GERMANS-MODESTY.

NATION STILL PLUMING ITSELF ON VICTORY.

"ARROGANT ENGLAND'S LESSON."

Amsterdam, June 4

"The "Cologne Gazette" says: "Now the rats have again left for their safe holes. They have been bitten, not through the oaken walls which were Britain's bulwark in Nelson's time, but through iron armoured turrets .under the Union Jack. It has been a, more formidable battle than any since Trafalgar. The victory proves j our "fleet; which has n yew prqpar-1 kg fov tile decisive mdmeiii England, arrogant and presumptuous, has learned its lesson, which is burnt in bloody | characters upon the islanders. Therein lies a world of historical importance." Dr, yon Bethmaim Hollweg telegraphed to the Commander-in-Chief of the High Sea Fleet as follows i "Pride i and enthusiasm fills the whole of Germany. The fleet with mighty blows has shown a superior enemy considering himself invincible what Germany's sea power can do."

The Coramander-in-Chief replied: "The Fatherland's pride gives us hope that we arc able to contribute our shale to the Germans' value in the world."

The President of the Prussian Diet read the following telegram from the Kaiser: "With..you T am proud of the mighty fleet which by its latest feat of arms lias proved a match for a superior enemy."