GERMAN WAR PLANS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1541, 10 September 1912, Page 7

GERMAN WAR PLANS.

SEIZURE OF EGYPT ADVOCATED>jjy Tcl6Era.ph-Pre33 Association— Oopyrtelit Berlin, September 8. Admiral Breusing, a well-known retired Jiaval officer and a writer'on. political and naval queetious, ' addressing the PanGerman League on- the subject of tho 6trategical situation in the Mediterranean statod. that ono of Germany's first objects in the event of war with Britain must be the • interception of tho British food supplies, nnd tt> that end a land attack on, Egypt must bo undertaken, a task which would only bo possible by closely co-operating with Austria and ;italy.' . "EGGING GERMANY ON." The "Spectator" declares, in a recent article, that the Government "have chosen E policy which can only be described as that of egging Germany on to further efforts. The proper way to meet German ■ competition is not to keep just ahead, nnd thus Inn Germany to one more effort, but to set forth in bold characters ia, permanent policy. A grim' determination to see the thing through, expressed . by meeting every German bid by a big rise,rather than a small one, is our policy, and the policy that will pay in the long run. "Our policy in. the Mediterranean," adds tho "Spectator," "will bring into being a st'H greater force against us. Our position as regards Italy has received a ehock from which it will take a. long time to recover. Up till last May tho Italians believed that our sea poweV would always be maintained in tho Mediterranean, and in private, if not in (public, recognised that" some day it might have great consequences in the shaping of their ultimate policy. Now it is to bo feared they have not the samo confidence that they had before, but are haunted by the thought that supremacy in the ■Mediterranean is not n fundamental of our policy, but that a change once made Bo recklessly and so'unnecessarily may bo '" imade again. • 1 , ~ ', "Mr. Churchill's blunder was probably tho worst false step we have made in (naval policy for a century, nnd it will take us many years and much expenditure «f naval strength to live it down."