GERMAN NAVAL STAFF.
WANTED TO FORCE BATTLE. AFTER ARMISTICE AGREED TO. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received January 28, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON;- January -27.- v A Berlin correspondent reports that the German naval staff's attempt to spike the armistice negotiations \vas 8 disclosed by Admiral von Trotha, when giving evidence before the Reichstag sub-committee inquiring into the causes of Germany's war collapse. Ha admitted that at an advanced stage o' the negotiations, when Germany had already undertaken to .end the submarine war, and preliminaries to the cessation of hostilities had been arranged, the German , naval staff was ■ preparing to go behind the Govern- , ment's back and force a battle with the British fleet. The project was abandoned when the crews refused t<* fight.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16710, 28 January 1926, Page 5
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