GERMANY AND HER SUBMARINES.
REVELATIONS BEFORE WAR INQUIRY COMMITTEE.
Australian and N.Z Cable Association, Received November 12, 9.50 a.m. BERLIN, November 11.
The War Inquiry Committee examined Admiral Koch and other officers of the Admiralty staff. They contended that they never expected the submarines to bring England to her knees, but to dispose her to peace by showing that Germany could hold out longest. This would have been accomplished in 1917. but Erzberger’s revelations regarding Czerniu’s pessimistic report to Emperor Karl, and the Reichstag’s resolution in favour of peace encouraged England to continue the war. Dr. Struve, the Reighstag Deputy for Kiel, informed tho committee that the Admiralty’s statements during the war concerning the number of submarines available for duty were grossly untrue. Onlv 54 were available out of 203 during "1917. The Admiralty only ordered 56 during 1917, though the German yards could have turned out 139.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15970, 12 November 1919, Page 5
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148GERMANY AND HER SUBMARINES. Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15970, 12 November 1919, Page 5
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