RUSSIA'S WARSHIPS.
The Czar's fleet is playing a part in the naval campaign even at this stage because its existence places a. severe restraint upon the German forces. ' "When the now ships now nearing completion in the Russian yards flre ready it will do more. "It is in the presence of the Russian ile£t,-" says a naval writer, ''that we find tin* explanation of the reluctance
of Germany to risk her battle fleet in a great sea light in the North Sea, for if that fight went against her, then the Russia-British fleet would dominate the Baltic and with the Baltic the long northern seaboard of the German Empire. As long as the German battle fleet is unscathed we dare not risk sending a naval force into the Baltic strong enough to meet the fleet which Germany could pour through the Kiel Canal; conversed, Germany can scarcely risk a fleet fiction in the North Sea v.ithj this considerable and growing Russian force in her rear." J
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 276, 19 November 1914, Page 4
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166RUSSIA'S WARSHIPS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 276, 19 November 1914, Page 4
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