REPORTS MADE IN GERMANY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 2 September 1915, Page 4

REPORTS MADE IN GERMANY.

The derma ns may issue these reports of Zeppelin successes in good faith, but it is possible they are deliberately exaggerated to induce the Br'tesu authorities to- make -oine statement throwing valuable light on the operations, is tin* opinion oi a Christ-, church Press writer. False, reports' are a device that the Gormans are suspected of having tried before. Some months ago it was reported that the battle-cruiser Von tier Tann had been Mink by an English hattle-eniiser in’ the South Atlantic, and the interesting theory was put forward that this was; simply a German dodge to entice, the Admiralty into disclosing the whereabouts of the I nflexible ilndl the Invincible, which, after the Falkland Islands light, had disappeared into tiie unknown. The Admiralty issued a non-committal denial. It is possible that the repeated assertions that a British cruiser was sunk in the North Sea on -January 24th were inspired by something more than a‘desire to salve wounded German pride. Perhaps, however, they thought the Admiralty might he tricked into saying more :ibout the condition and positions of certain British ships than would be good for the national interests.