STRANGE WAR LETTER.
SENT TO GERMAN ADMIRAL. LONDON, Nov.'■?(). "Dear Old Tirps—You are the only German sailor who understands, warkill the enemy without yourself being killed. I don't .blame you for the work with the. U j boats. I should lhave done the same myself, but the idiots in England wouldn't believe me.—Yours till Hell freezes.—FlSHEß." Thus wrote the late Lord Fisher, the famous admiral and a former First Sea Lord of thej Admiralty, to Admiral von Tirpitz, the. German naval chief, on the occasion of the latter's resignation in 1916. The letter has just been published in Berlin. The Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger says it blushes to think how differently the Germans refer to Lord Fisher,
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Shannon News, 9 January 1925, Page 3
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115STRANGE WAR LETTER. Shannon News, 9 January 1925, Page 3
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