POWERLESS FLEET

Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1918, Page 5

POWERLESS FLEET

OIiUMAN NAVAL EXPERT'S ADMISSION. The most significant avowal of Germany's naval impotence that haw ever been jmsed by the censor since the war began, (says a correspondent at Amsterdam) is made by ex-Captain Persius, the naval expert of the Berlin Tageblatt, in tNt journal. The fiormai] fleet, lie declares, cannot achieve any of its war aims so long as the Britisji fleet remains afloat. He dismisses as impossible the Pan-German idea that Germany, after the war. should "build the strongest fleet in the world," and at the same time warns 11-boat enthusiasts against cherishing- the idea that the German submarines can attain anything more than a. temporary success, "Technical progress," he says, '"moves s 0 fast that the time may come—will come, and must come —when our submarines v.'ill be no safer under the water than German men-of-war outsid.' f • Kiel Canal. We oiyht to explain these matters to the German people in order to check the mibridWl fan! asios wlv are now ren.nrdip" "dr' "■<> sh",]' OeUbJe to achieve when peace i»