A MOTHER OF NAVIES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 440, 10 January 1919, Page 4

A MOTHER OF NAVIES.

Strange though the assertion may mind, it is nevertheless literally and . b-olnteiv true that the German Navy s the child of the TVrili>h Navy. There are people =;iil living in Portsmouth who ran recall seeing a I'ttle boy in a sailor suit, who, more than forty years ago. used to wander .■bout the dockyard, looking at the • hips there with eager curiosity and : -hi' g all sorts of questions conccrm.ag them. This little hoy was none other than the present German Emperor, who in tin o days was a frequent visitor to his :.tmdmother, Queen Victoria. ' Os- : ornc. The then newly-created German Empire had at that time practically no :'"c . a'nd the child, old beyond his >■".-,rs, was frequently heard to lament •'•■ ; ■ fact. '■When T grow up T will have ships built like these,'' he was once heard to :en ark. indie .tins;, with a wave of his .•id the si, tely ironclads moving in ■• d out of Fpi'hrad. Meanwhile, as '■ e himself has told us. he talked ships bv day and dreamt chips by night; v hih at home in Germain- his favourite recreation was to sail a beautiful twenty-tern mode! of a British ftigate on the Have! lakes, near Potsdam. ■ranaraHßi