AS THE GERMANS SEE IT'

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2375, 3 February 1915, Page 5

AS THE GERMANS SEE IT'

NERVOUS COMMENTS ON .NAVALJ DEFEATS. ; The chief topic of- discussion in, , tIK German papers is the sinking of the three cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and' Leipzig off the Falkland said the Manchester. "Guajdian" on Be.' cein'ber 15. Nothing but the most obvious remarks are made; their loss wai certain, and, the Germans console them, selves with saying they succumbed t< superior forces, and in any case; coverec themselves with gloryi The elegy o! the "Frankfurter Zeitnng" is perhapi the" most interesting, because it treati German warships not as instrument) for gaining command of the seas, bui merely as exhibits which should show people in distant lands the mechanica talent and the amiability of the Ger mans. Captain Persius, the naval critic o the "Berliner Tageblatt," has an ,ax tide on the general situation at sea, ij which he says that most Germans wer agreed that things would turn they have done. However, that is n reason, he thinks, to acknowledge th principle that only numbers can pr< vail, and he goes on to give expressia to the hope that circumstances wi! alter during the course of the wai "Germany may rest content with it strategy. . . . But England has ever, reason to be discontented with th strategy of its Admiralty. Its strateg was dictated by Germany. Germa submarines and Germin mines laid dow .tlio policy to be adopted by the almoi trebly strong English fleet, whereby ■! was condemned to practical inactivity.' Finally, Captain Persius refers to statement of the late Admiral Mahan to the effect that if Germany won : would becomo hostile towards Americi Captain Persius takes the occasional flatter the Americans by telling "the: that only they and Germany hitheri availed to keep in check the dominee ing instincts of England, but' that Germany is beaten the Panama Can would fall into the possession of Enland. "To draw a picture of wh: would follow may be left to the Amei cans themselves" are Captain Pe sius's last words. /