HITLER DISSATISFIED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 119, 18 April 1940, Page 7

HITLER DISSATISFIED.

NAZI NAVAL COMMAND. QUARREL WTTH RAEDER. LONDON. March 30. There is Rood reason to believe that serious dissension lias arisen between 11 itier and bis immediate associates on the one band and the German naval command on the other, says the noted naval correspondent. Hector C. Bywater, writing in the News-Chronicle. Head of the naval command is GrandAdmiral Raeder, a title eonivalent to Britain’s Admiral of the Fleet. Boeder's days of office are said to be numbered. if he has not already been dismissed. Hitler is understood to be profoundly dissatisfied with the conduct of the war at sea. He was convinced that the terrorisation of weak neutral maritime States by the ruthless destruction of their shipping, coupled, with the use of such “secret weapons” as the magnetic mine, would soon reduce Britain to a state of siege and compel her surrender. Although he has failed to intimidate either British or neutral seamen b.v “frightfulness,” he still pins bis faith to U-boats, of which he is believed to have ordered a great number since the war began. Hitler is now looking for a new naval chief to replace Raeder, arid his choice has, it is understood, fallen on Admiral Carls, who is an energetic and youngisli officer, but a lukewarm Nani.