The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
GERMAN FLEET ID START MANEUVERS Hold Spring Practice in the
 North Sea HARBOR AT MUNICH Claims to Title of Louis Sixteenth's Son Again Being Agitated in
 Connection With Dauphin's
 Alleged Escape
AT MUNICH

Berlin, June 1s-The spring maneuvers
 of the German fleet in the North Sea,
 which may be of special interest in Amer l ica this year because of the approach l ing visit of the American battleship
 squadron to Kiel, have brought together
 for the first time a division-four ships
 of the dreadnaught class. These with one
 dreadnaught cruiser the Won der Tam are 1 all that are now available of the fleet of F dreadnaughts which, according to the since exploded scare stories in the English house of commons in 19O9 were 10 imperil the safety of the island em- pire in the spring of 1912. The mistake
 in the calculations of the British alarm ists is now generally admitted and Ger many's thirteenth dreadnaught will hoist it's flag only in the autumn of next year,
 With one complete tactical unit Of the four which will compose a future Ger man fleet, four homogeneous, high-power batteships, cooperating with a hign speed battleship cruiser for locating the enemy under his command, Admiral von Hotzendorff is now able to work ou, some of the problems of the naval war 
 and tacticians have hitherto been obliged to study only in theory. No one is fol- lowing the results with keener interest
 than the emperor.
 The fleet which left Niel May 1 will | continue it's maneuvres in the North Sea
 until June ,, operating within the triangle
 between Cunhaveu, Wilhelmshaven and
 the island fortress of Holgoland, whicn would probably be the field of war in case of hostilities with Great Britain. At
 the conclusion of the spring cruise thes entire fleet will return to Mel to partici- pate in the welcome to the American bat tleships during the kiel regatta week.
 plan for turning Munich into a har- bor city has been drawn up by officials of the Bavaran government at the sug- eestion of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria It is proposed to cut through Northern Ba- varia a great ship canal 150 miles in length, fed by the rivers Isar, Ampor and Lech and connecting with the kain 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 Ludwig Is by this means to provide more eeono- mical transport. more especially for coal and iron, which Bavaria almost entirely lacks and which are now carried by the railroads at almost prohibitive cost.
 The claims of Naundorff to be the son of Louis XVI. of France have been put forward again recently by those who be- lieve the Dauphin escaped from the Tenn pie in Paris instead of dying there in 17e5, as recorded in history. As resuir of the controversy which has arisen on the subject, the Prussian state archives have been diligently searched and found
 to contain many documents relating to this claimant to the title of Louis XNTi, but, according to the officials. they all tend to prove him to have been the sub feet of hysterical self-deception and so that in fact he was a German citizen. In pamphlet just issued by Professor Tschirch the state archives of Branden- burg who has had access to all the state archives, proof Is given that the alleged Dauphin w1s a man of hubble extraction, and the author declares that there is not a single point in the state papers which could give any substantation to the le gend of his royal ancestry.