THE BALTIC STRUGGLE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14745, 26 October 1915, Page 4

THE BALTIC STRUGGLE.

To the British people tho struggle in the Baltic is of special interest. Some time ago the Admiralty made the ndmission that tho Russian fleet had secured the co-operation cf British submarines, ono of them under Commander Max Horton, whose daring exploits have marked him out as one of the heroes of the war. As matters now stand, it is obviously necessary that the German army operating in the direction cf Riga should receive the support of the navy, and the conditions resemble to some extent those existing In the North Sea, with the positions reversed, Russia’s fleet is murh inferior to Germany’s but the latter Power keeps a large proportion of her warships in the estuary of the Elbe. The greater the damage that the Russian Admiral can inflict, tho lighter will be tie- ta.sk ultimately devolving upon Sir John Jellieoe. ( learlv, in venturing out for the purpose of forcing the Gulf of Riga, the German squadrons have exposed themselves to atN'U’k from the British submarines, and it may bo taken for granted that the latter have been prompt to seize their opportunity. Count Reventlow can hardly view with complacency tho naval situation in the Baltic, and he has confessed disapnointment with the results of submarine activity in the North Sea,, A few months ago he and every other naval exnort in Germany would have predicted with absolute eonfidenoo the wiping out of the Russian Baltio fleet.