ALLIED NAVAL POWER.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 July 1918, Page 3

ALLIED NAVAL POWER.

Vienna is scarcely the quarter from which to expect a lucid exposition of sea power and its effect, but it would be difficult to improve upon an article on this subject recently published by the Arbeiter Zeitung, of that city. Germany is told point blank that even the conquest of Calais and Boulogne would not mean the defeat of Britain and America. “The Germans may break the war spirit of the French, but to make England and the United States helpless, to force them to lay down their arms—no victory on land can accomplish all this as long as the English Navy dominates the ocean,” says the Vienna “Even were Germany to win the most complete victory on land, even if the -whole English army were taken prisoner, England and the United States would not even then be forced to capitulate. These two countries would carry on the war by sea and continue to blockade our shores,” The Vienna journal then reminds its readers that the Central Powers cannot exist economically without certain raw materials, of which there will be a' great shortage when the war ends, “and if England and America refuse to supply us with these commodities, if they carry on an economic war after the war of arms, then even as conquerors we shall be conquered.” As for the submarine campaign, the Arbeiter Zeitung declares that while It can injure England, it can never defeat her. A tribute i<? paid to British endurance, and the article concludes with a warning to Germany that if Hindenburg’s successes are used to enforce a peace based on might, “then bitter disappointment will be the result, as everyone must realise who lookd’ at facts as they are.”