American Sympathy

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 91, 7 August 1914, Page 5

American Sympathy

AMERICAN ADMIRAL PROPHESIES, “BRITAIN WILL WIN!” Times and Sydney Sun Services. Loudon, August 5. The French Press describes. Sir Edward Grey’s speech as a masterpiece of faithfulness to treaties, and faithfulness to engagements. The French are confident of checking the German advance, but are eagerly awaiting the British force. Admiral Mahan, interviewed in Neiv York, said Germany’s naval hope is to strike immediately. Stagnation of her sea trade would threaten her life. He expects a North Sea engagement immediately, and that the British will win. Ho believes that Italy mustjoin in the war as an ally of France, She will be compelled to do so in order to hold the Austrians in check for the saltation of the Balkans, which will become a prey to the Turks unless the Austrian navy can be kept from the shores of Greece. The antecedent newspaper preparation had been so skilfully conducted that not one German in a hundred thousand knows the true history of the cause of the war.