GERMANY'S PARALYSED SHIPPING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2496, 24 June 1915, Page 5

GERMANY'S PARALYSED SHIPPING

IDLE FLEETS AT HAMBURG GREAT HOPES: ON INVASION OF ENGLAND London, Jmm 22. A neutral observer"Writes:—"Silence reigns in the palatial offices of the Hain-burg-Amerika. Steamship Company at Hamburg. Its giant merchantmen are huddled at the quays rusting under the summer sun. The average German forgets that commerco. is_ at a„sta_ndstill, and still express his -unshaken faith in the German fleet.'-'' ' ' : "Great hope is set on a combined action by battlcshiDSj.-.submarines,.. and airships, and he believes that a contest will sonn occur in an attempt to destroy the British Fleet, which is supposed to be hiding: in terror on 'the west coast of Ireland. "Taubos hare beeii" discarded as wholly unsatisfactory for'military purposes. Biplanes of_an improved. Farman type are being inade. : German experts _ admit that the French are still superior in field aeronautics. Most Germans visualise a phalanx of Zeppelins and aeroplanes advancing four abreast, sweeping over Britain at' night, destroying tlie chief arsenals and factories, especially in Loudon. Inquiries respecting the date of the event elicit the reply, 'When we have beaten the Russians.' "The hatred against England among the upper classes has subsided. A high official said: 'We hope to reach an agreement with Fngland, who' surely realises that we—as an enemy—are worth her steel.'"