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LORD FISHER AND THE

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WHAT THE GERMANS FEARED.

NEW LIGHT ON THE NAVAL WAR.

If any further vindication of Lord Fisher's war plans were needed, it is sup plied by the second volume of the Ger man Naval Staff History: Its author, Rudolph Firls, givce a clear and careful account of the naval operatione in the Baltic from the outbreak of war to the spring of 1915. From the facts now mada public we know that the German High Command expected us to adopt a naval policy very different from the one to which we gavo effect, and that, in so much as our enemies expected it with appre hension. it might have been pursued with advantage to ourselves.

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working smoothly. But betweent mine "o'clock, and midnight Prince Harry re

ceived two telegrams which throw the whole plan into confusion. At:10 pm. he was told that the German" Consul at Malmo bad heard that the British sab marines intended to pass the Kattegat on that very night. The message left a disagreeable impression in his mind. and reminded him that the main enemy, and the decisive events of the War were in the North Sea but st midnight he received a signal, which put what had gone before into the shade. It was to the effect that the agent of the German Intelligence Officer at Mulino had reported that at 6:30 pm. the British Fleer had passed through the Great Belt after clearing the minefields by means of old ships. A few minutes later, another, telegram arrived saying, that, at @ aku., British submarines had been sighted off Vinga on a southerly course. To Prince SHANGHAI Henry these three messages seemed like a chain of corroborative testimony; and, if the facts alleged. were literally true, his own position was little abort of des porte. At the moment when F the telegram the bulk the British Fleet

of would have been debouching from the southern entrances to the Belts; the forces at Kiel would shortly be utterly over- whelmed; and his own squadrons would almost certainly be brought to action and destroyed before reinforcements could be TIENTSIS LINE sent. He therefore broke, off his opera- tions and ordered every squadron to re- BANGKOK LINE turn to Kiel. It remains to be said that Prince Henry's fears were shared by every responsible Commander in the Gec man Navy.

In order to prove this point, it will be well to describe how the German forces were distributed in the North Sea and Baltic theatres when war, began, and relate what discussions took place in high, quarterstwhenever anything occurred to alter that distribution On: August 4th, 1914, the Germans had concentrated every heavy ship in their Navy in the North Bea. The Battle Flest consisted of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Squadrone, with the 1st and 2nd Scouting Groups; but in addition to these there were three old battle squad

and several additional cruiser squndrous, with an appropriate number of flotilas. Of these two groups or divit sions only the first, slightly reinforced by the second, could appear in a fleet action. It was natural that, with the whole striking force of the German Navy con- centrated in the North Sethostre, the Baltig, should be weakly defended, and in fact the German Navy was there in a position of great numerical inferiority. Unless reinforced in time from the North Sea Prince Henry of Prussia, the Gered against persons, it is fair to conclude If one puts aside all arguments direct- two things from the facts now before us: (1)That so long as the principal forces of the German Navy were concen- trated in one solid mass, the German Naval Staff felt secure. When once that mass was divided, they felt convinced that their forces were working on, a deli- thrown out that it was dangerous to set cate adjustment, which might be so easily it in operation, even for a brief period;

man "Commander-in-Chief-in-the-Baltic, could only oppose the Russian flest of four old battleships and nine, cruisers with a squadron of seven light cruisers the Russian flotillas were seven times more numerous than the German, and it was expected that two Russian super Dreadnoughts would be ready for sen in the autumn of 1914-4D accession of "strength which would make the existing

Inequality overwhelming.

This was the last occasion during 1914 when the squadrons from the North Sea forces were sent to the Baltic for impor tant operations; and it is now time to examine the facts that have been describe ed, and discover their bearing.

and

LORD FISHER'S TLAN.

(2)—That "if fancied movements by our North Sea forces affected the German dispositions so much, real movements would have affected them still more, and that we had for greater chances of im- posing our will upon them than we imagined.

But these two conclusions lead to ques tions of extreme gravity. What did the Germans actually fear would happen if they abandoned their principle of con centrating every available battleship in the North Sea! And how could we have imposed our will upon them more than we actually did? There is only one answer on either head. If the Germans feared to detach old battleships, useless for the purposes of a fleet action, from the North, Sea theatre. it was because they feared their coasts were open to attack; and if they feared an attack of the kind as much as we now know they did so much, it was obviously because. they dreaded that it would be successful if attempted; and indeed it is hardly accessary to enlarge on the consequences to the German Fleet and the German Empire if British troops had ever en trenched themselves securely on one of the low-lying islands off the coasts of Frisia and Schleswig.

"FRINCE HENEY'S' PLANT**** Prince Henry was soon in a position to measure the difficulties of his task.

Such control of the Southern and West- ern Baltic as he could establish was con- tingent upon the Russians remaining inactive, and early in September reports of their activity began to come in from the German forces watching the Gulf of Finland These raporta arrived scon after the Battle of Heligoland Bight, and this fact must be borne in mind, as it is of great importance. Prince Henry at once asked to be reinforced by the 4th Battle Squadron from the North Sea, and submitted the following plan of operations: If the recent Russian activity were the precursor of a serious movement, he would use his light forces to decoy the Russians on to the 4th Battle Squadron, and so overwhelm them; but if the Russian feet did not make any further attempt to press a decision, the reinforcements would be used to make a display of superior-force and then be returned to the North Sea. Now, if the firat assumption proved correct, it was obvious that Prince Henry would have to be reinforced it the Germans were to retain their control of the Baltics and in the second case the North Sea theatre would be weakened by que old squadronNow we know that when Lord Fisher for rather more than week, so that it is hard to see how Prince Henry's plan left the Admiralty be had that very plan could have been criticized or rejected in mind; and we know also that Mr. And yet to the German Naval staff the -for-Lord-Fisher's recall wher he realized Churchill made his much-criticized append projected operation seemed to involve that the project had been abandoned by risks too great to be taken. To von Pohl his successors. Accordingly the following the Chief of the Naval Staff, it seemed conclusions are now so supported by little shirt of hazardous. The RussianS

published evidence that none will ques- had become active just after our sweeption them: Take info the Heligoland Bight. Did Dot not such a succession of events suggest operations to which the battle of August 28th was a mere prelude, and would he not be playing into British bands by re inforcing the Baltic, even for a week, at a moment so critical! He did at last give way, and sent the IVth Squadron and a few heavy cruisers through the Kiel Canal, entering in his diary that the whole project caused "him grave anxiety." Prince Henry then began his operations. but the restrictions imposed upon him reflect the tension at Head- quarters. First he was ordered not to take his ships cast of Memel then he re- ceived a telegram from the Emperor ordering him not to "exposs the squad- ron under his command to mishaps, and after he had put to sea, he received yet another signal commanding him to use the utmost caution. The opera tions were continued antil, a few days later, von Pohl received a telegram in- forming him that, the English seemed to be in the point of starting great under

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(1) That Lord Fisher contemplated Telephone No. 215 sub-az. 29 and 3836. doing the very thing which the German Staff dreaded most-

(2)--That the sarcasm of the German Press about the inactivity of the British Fleet did refect a genuine conviction in high quarters at Brelin that we had failed to use our naval superiority to its utmost extent; and

(3)-That facts which justify the con- ceptions and audacity of a great leader should be fully exposed.-The Times.

MAN WHO BROKE THE SILENCE.

The best of a multitude of loyal episodes with reference to the quelling of ucts of malignity is the adventure of young

scientious objector who profaned the great silence by traversing Castle Square in Brighton, atates a London wire of November 11th He was stopped by soldier, who snatched his hat and resumed

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he ordered all detach said:--Have you no sympathy with our ed forces to return to the North Sea im- dead boys!" Before he could reply the mediately. In other words, a mere ep-soldier felled Eim to the ground. He got prehension of danger in the North-Sen up and decamped out the crowd captured weighed so heavily upon the German him and proceeded to immerse him from Headquarters, Staff, that they feared the pier. The police, rescued him and weaken their forces in the main theatre helped him to escape.

by withdrawing from them, for rather more than a week, a squadron of old battleships which would have been, useless in a fleet action.

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This war the first ccasion in which the German distribution of naval forces was glass mounting and has been designed to altered, the second occurred early void month later when the Army staff request avoid all the objectionable features of ed that a combined demonstration should this type of mounting. The long soil be made off Windau, in order to prevent springs of the Fit-U prevent spring Russian forces being sent to Galicia:On

this occasion von Pobl consented to re breakage, and can be instantly adjusted inforce the Baltic, for a short time, but to give more or less pressure on the nose. Admirals von Fehncke and von 1 The nose clips are of special shape to were strongly opposed to it; von did not object to sending reinforcements prevent slipping. Fit-U Pince nez of ang throngh

the Kiel Canal; but thought that metal are obtainable from The Hong.. it would be better to act in the North Sea than to demonstrate in the Baltic kang Optical Co., successors to Clark In spite of these, misgivings, the IVth & Co., Manufacturing and Refracting and Vth Battle Squadrons were placed Opticians the most competent optical under Prince Henry's command trans

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