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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 22,
THE SMALL STATES' SIGNIFICANT PART IN INFLUENCING AND RUSSIAN POLICY
GERMAN
from the air.
Had it been lies to have cu ports of Swed would almost o much earlier t was, the gallar British submari
MOH has been heard of late of naval strategy still governed by the ed the
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the position of the so-called virtually passive principles of the pered this tra Baltic States, Lithuania, Latvia "Fleet in being" which prevailed compelled the and Estonia, in relation to Ger- before and during the greater part a convoy syste many's "forward" policy, but the of the last war. There is, how- the comparativ discussion has tended to centre on ever, reason to believe that those Russian fleet a political moves and counter-moca, principles have been discarded in British and there have been few referen- favour of the doctrine of offensive and so reduced ces to the strategical significance action which permeated the Navy been a mortal of these States in' the event of a in the days of Blake, Hawke and than a pin pric general European war.
Nelson, and which found its' mod- To-day, howe Yet it can easily be demonstrat- ern expression in the tactics of fundamentally ed that these former Russian lands Beatty and Keyes. Although in it- with her fast, constitute as a territorial block a self a comparatively minor opera- 'drons and imp key factor the existence of which tion, the assault on Zeebrugge in submarines, sho might prove decisive in the case of April, 1918, proved that no shore seriously inter war between what may be called, defences, however formidable, are even of bringi for the sake of convenience, the invulnerable to surprise attack well any munitions t aggressive and non-aggressive Pow- prepared and conducted with iron den and Germa ers. In "The Daily Telegraph" of determination.
tingency is app May 2 Mr. Wolfram Gottlieb, in an Germany, therefore, would not man naval staff able survey of the current political entrust the security of her western recent articles i status of the three small Baltic littoral solely to fixed defences, ant German ser Powers, declared it to be "obvious and so it follows that part of her We may assur that Russia, if Germany pushes fleet, in the event of war, would primary aims o
NAVAL STRATEG
further into the Baltic, cannot have to be kept in the Bight of would be to bot maintain the role of a complacent Heligoland to repel raids and pos- naval forces in observer, but will have to defend 'sibly more serious and sustained land so tightly the States which are her natural offensive operations. Nevertheless, difficult even f bulwark." So much is plain to the, it remains the fact that her Achil- escape into the beginner in the study of co-or- les' heel is in the Baltic, for her however, could dinated strategy.
ability to carry on a war would less Germany e In the event of war with the largely depend upon the mainten- bases command aggressive Powers, the Russian ance of her trade communications Finland, bases Fleet is likely to play a part much with the Scandinavian Powers, and at present pos more important than it did in 1914- above all with Sweden.
and Memel are 18.
During the last war her resist- gulf to serve t ance was prolonged by two factors: ed. On the oth first, the regular arrival from Latvia, and Tal Sweden of "cargoes of magnetic Islands, both at
No one, except possibly the In- telligence officers of the British and foreign Admiralties, has an exact
knowledge of the present strength iron ore, which was essential to her tonian sovereig and efficiency of the Soviet Navy, output of artillery and other muni- for the purpose, but all the available evidence sug- tions; and secondly, to the genius we do of Ger gests that it is relatively
of the Jewish professor, Haber, methods (Not k [formidable than in 1918. Excluding who invented the now well-known Necessity knows the Black Sea and the Far East process of extracting ammonia cult to believe t contingents, Russia now maintains
more
in the Gulf of Finland a force com- prising two 23,000-ton battleships armed with 12in guns, which are said to have been extensively mod- ernised; five or six modern cruis- ers of great speed and heavy arma- ment, 12 big flotilla-leaders, some 15 destroyers, and at least 60 sub- marines. Under a clever and re- - solute commander this force should be able to give a good account of itself even against the German Fleet, especially as Germany would be compelled to retain a substan- tial portion of her strength in the North Sea.
It is claimed in Berlin that the North Sea coast is now impregn able, thanks to the fortifications erected in the last two years from. Sylt in the north to Borkum in the south.
This might be true were British
NOW LETS SEE ABOUT NAMES-ROY-FRANK- EARLE-FREDDIE-JEAN- HE'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL BABY I MUST THINK
UP A PRETTY NAME-
NOT FIRING AT EACH OTHER.-Recruits to the sillers get down to the job when learning how to use headquarters at Bloosmbury.
I HAVE IT-- WHY DIDN'T Į THINK OF IT SOONER? THEY SHOULD NAME
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