DELAYED CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 132, 6 February 1915, Page 3

DELAYED CABLES.

BEFORE BEATTY'S VICTORY. . -VISIT TO KIEL CANAL.MODEST GERMAN OFFICERS. WILLING TO FIOHT-EUT DO NOT:' PERTH. Jan. 27, , A special correspondent cf the Net-.. York Tribune, under the date Novem. ber 24, from Kiel, sends a long accoun of a.dsy.w.ilh the Kaiser's navy. IR reports that tho. Germans appear tc be banking en new super-Dreadnough; .submarines, cue cf which is.U32. Hf was permitted to inspect her, while her commander recited a., list of. British super-Dreadnoughts which he hop ed shortly., to send to the bottom. "i have- some friends on the Ajax—

that is,, 1. had seme/' this ; cificer said and t shall be delighted to meet her though the Lion or the Tiger, or even the King George V will do if we d<

v.O( sec the A-jHx." •Despite this kind of conversation which appears to lie general; the Kiel correspondent says the Germans arc net over-elated, lie was taken in a steam pinnace round Kiel Harbour where two battle squadrons, cue oi eight Dreadnoughts and the other composed of an unequal number of older battleships, were riding at anchor. The ecrrespendem made a tour oi the big navy yard, where 8000 men were working by day and 3000 by night. He notes as the most significan* fact that work was not being pushed on in those fighting ships under ccn structicn which could not possibly be •nlshed under the year, while the ttOJn effort was being devoted to those ngkitfjng shi P s ulKler construction wblco.) could net possibly be finished pnder the year, while the main effort was befeg devoted to those which would b B in fighting trim in three months or aett. At Friedrichsdorf another 3000 wew working night and lay making torpedoes and torpedo

lubes. He reported a noticeable uniformity in conversation of tihe fleers at Kiel.. All were looking forward ito. taking their iar t in the great deciding naval engagement. All were certain it. would a-me. and all equaly discounted the idea, that the German ships were afraid to -none out and fi S nt "The Eng.hih will find German warshros in the North Sea now if they go "to Vcok ice them," one officer remarked. "The British numerical superiority is chiefly in smaller ships. Another said,. "In Dreadnoughts we are not at such great disadvantage; but mere superiority in tonnage and metability will not be he deciding MD-s in the great battle None of mcers; billing to latard a guess as to when the oig batfls 6*ol take place.

coast!- "English bombarded by German "Suecessfub bombardm?nt.o« the Eng» coast! bearborough and Hrxtlepotf bombarded -Bombardment of towns-" "Scarborough, and Hartlepool bombarded!" "victorious return of our cruisers!" Such are the headline, ot the German newspapers of December 17 Jurt to hand All the newspapers lay »tre« upon the fortifications ot the places attacked. . ~ The Frankfurter Zemin g sa> s. iue nlilitary situation at sea compelled England to put up litis violet attack The English navy was no doutft able ,o scatter the North Sea with mines. Tout it has not succeeded in controlling the North Sea with its vast- number ot ships Every voice that we hear trcm England discloses the fact that thto failure is painfully felt, and that the constant repeated attacks ol our cruisers and submarines keep the Empire in breathless excitement."