"BRITAIN WILL WIN!"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 67, 7 August 1914, Page 5

"BRITAIN WILL WIN!"

AMERICAN ADMIRAL PROPHESIES. NORTH SEA ENGAGEMENT EXPECTED. FRANCE AWAITING A BRITISH FORCE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 6. 5.40 p.m. London, 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 New 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. He believes that Ttaly must join in the Svar as an ally of France. She will he. compelled to do so in order to hold the Austrians in check for the salvation of the Balkans, which will become a prey to bh*e 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. -"•%