Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-18
Spring Maneuvfes Of Fleet
Interests America.
-Four DreadaOughls Together in
One Complete Tactical Unil.
Plans for Turning Munich into Mar
Dor City Haunaorff Claims.

Berlin, May 1.-The spring mancuvres
of the German fleet in the North sea-
which may be of special interest in
America this year because of the ap-
preaching visit of the American battle
ship squadron to Kiel have brought to-
gether for the first time divsion-four
shps--of the Dreadnought class. These
with one Dreadnought cruiser, the Won
der Tam are al4 that are now able
of the feet of II Dreadnoughts which.
according to the since exploded scare
stories in the English House of Com
mons in 1863, were to impefl the safety
of the island empire in the spring of
1912. The mistake in the calculations OF
the British admiralty is not generally
admitted and Germanys 18th Dread
nought will hoist its flag only in the au-
tumn OF next year.
With one complete tactical unit OF the
four which viii compose a future Ger
man feet. four homogeneous high-power
battleships, cooperating with a high
speed battIeship cruiser for locating the
enemy under his command, Admiral Won
Holtzcndorff is now able to work out
some OF the problems of the naval war
of the future which German strategists
obliged to study only in theory No one
is following the results with keener in
terest than the Emperor.
The fleet which left Kiel May /, will
continue its maneuvres in the North
Sea until June 2, operating within the
triangle between Cunhaven. Wilhelms-
haven and the Island fortress of Hell
goland, which would probably be the
field of war in case of hostilities with
Great Britain. At the conclusion of the
spring cruise the entire fleet will re-
turn to Kiel to participate in the well
come TO the American battleships during
the Kiel regatta week.
y plan turning Munich into harbor
city has been drawn up by officials of
the Bavarian government at the sugges-
ton of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria 1t is
proposed to cut through Northern Ba-
varia a great ship canal 100 miles in
length, fed by the rivers Isar Amper
and Lech and connecting with the Main
and the Rhine, to permit the navigation
of vessels displacing up to 1000 tons as
far as the Bavarian capital. The ships
are TO enter the canal at Ludwigshafen
on the Rhine. The idea of Prince Lud-
wig is by this means to provide more
economical transport. more especially
for coal and iron, which Bavaria almost
entirely lacks. and which are now car
ried by the railroads at almost prohibit
tive cost.
The claims of Naundorr to be the son
of Louis XVI of France have been put
forward again recently by those who be-
lieye the Dauphin escaped from the
Temple in Paris instead of dying there
in 1875, as recorded in history. AS a re-
suit of the controversy which has arisen
on the subject, the Prussian state ar
chives have been diligently searched and
found to contain many documents relat-
ing to this claimant to the title of LOUIS
XVII, but, according to the officials
they all tend to prove him TO have been
the subject of hysterical self-deception,
and so that in fact he was German
citizen. In pamphlet just issued by
Professor Tsctirch, the state archivist
of Brandenburg, who has had access to
all the state archives, proof is given
that the alleged Dauphin was man of
humble extraction, and the author de-
clares that there is no a single point
in the state papers which could give any
subsiantiation to the legend of his royal
ancestry