"A FEW OLD TUBS."

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1919, Page 7

"A FEW OLD TUBS."

AN IMPUDENT FORECAST AND THE ASTONISHING FACT. I Below is printed a priceless vaunt ofj the Cologne Gazette in September, 1914, and the official record of the accomplish-1 ed fact of November. IMS. It should be remembered that the Cologne Gazette is one of the most important journals in Germany, and has always been a Government mouthpiece. The Prophecy, 1914. "At the end of the war there will he no such country as Great Britain in existence. In its place we shall have Little Britain, a narrow strip of island territory peopled by loutish football kickers, living on the crumbs that Germany will deign to throw to them. Then the once mighty Empire, with her naval strength represented by a few old tubs which Germany will have left her, will become the laughing stock of the nations."—Cologne Gazette, September, . 1914. The Fact, 1918. ''The Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet has reported that at 9.30 this morning (21st November, 1018) he met the first and main instalment of theGerman High Sea Fleet which Is surrendering for internment." —British Admiralty Official Report- By thlß surrender and the surrender of all her submarines, Germany drops to the rant of a third-rate naval Pnww. NORTH BRITISH BELTING keeps