Germany's Place.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 39, 16 February 1914, Page 5

Germany's Place.

• AT THE SIDE OF ENGLAND. STRATEGY IN A NAVAL WAR. fBY Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. (Received S a.m.) Berlin, February 11. Admiral Breusing, lecturing on the strategy of an Anglo-German naval war, asserted that the British Admiralty at present favored a close blockade, the primary object being to safeguard England from starvation. England had only sufficient corn for a few months, and must keep the sea routes open, which would be difficult to accomplish. German submarines and torpedo boats with a base upon Heligoland could frustrate the laying of mines, while fast cruisers could break the North Sea blockade, and action with the German allies in the Mediterannean could menace England's imports further. The German people rested entirely on the navy. Twenty years hence Germany would be unable to feed her people with her own produce, and would be compelled to import. If she hadn't an adequate navy, she would become England's vassal. Her place" was neither before nor behind England, but at her side.