VON TIRPITZ DEAD.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18512, 8 March 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

VON TIRPITZ DEAD.

Echo Of Sea Warfare,

AUTHOR OF FRIGHTFULNESS. (United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, March 6. The death is reported from Munich of Admiral Von Tirpitz. Admiral von Tirpitz had recently been failing in memory. He was living unobstrusively in a small house on Lake Stamburg. A few days ago he suffered from a sharp attack of bronchitis and died in hospital.

[During the war Germany produced many men who cared not whose life they sacrificed so long as they reached their objective, but in a galaxy of men who had apparently abandoned all the principles which usually distinguished the human race from the lower creatures, Admiral Von Tirpitz, the author and abettor of the operations of frightfulness on the sea and under the sea, easily occupied first place, and there will be few who will regret that at last his evil career has come to an end. The late Admiral,- Alfred P-Frederick von Tirpitz, was bom at Kustrin in 1840. He entered the Prussian navy in 1865, and was ennobled in 1900. He rose to be Lord High Admiral (1911). As Secretary of State for the Imperial Navy (1897-1916), he piloted the German Navy Laws (1900, etc.), and raised a fleet to challenge British supremacy of the seas. A ruthless upholder of “frightfulness,” he commanded the German Navy from August 1914 to March 1916. He wrote “Memoirs” (1919), and. “Germany’s Impotence in the World War” (1926). He entered the Reichstag in 1924 as a member of the German National Party.!