El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-01
French Admiral Says Under
taking Would Pro0e q
Complete Failure.
KAISER TO SEND
<,e ARMY OF 10000
Has Only SLoD Vessels For
Transports and the Force
Gould Be Intercepted.

II ARTS, FRANCE. April 1-'A Ger
man invasion Of England must 81
looked upon as an impossibilitv,'.
says the French admiral Degouy in Ls
Petit Journal" but It may be at
tempted.
Even Il we do not yet know this
final plans Of a German naval Of
fensive.7 the admiral says. I'VE have
now sufficient. reliable information
about the preparations which are going
on in the retrenched naval camp, the
center Of which is Cuxhaven, to enable
US to draw intelligent conclusions
Admiral Tirpitz, we are told. did
not want to risk in open battle his high
sea fleet. the four squadrons OF first
class battleships which must not come
out except at a moment OF extreme
danger. and then preferably only in
German waters.
HE was satisfied TO let those
squadrons paralyze the English home
fleets Al safe distance, but he is al
ready to risk that fleet OF battle
cruisers which was defeated by admiral
Beatty on Jan. 35, 1915. when the
Bleucher went down, but which has
now been reinforced by two, perhaps
three, powerful units of the LuetzoW
type, armed with eight sos Nm (13 IN ,
guns. These six or seven battle cruisers.
assisted by half a score OF lighter
cruisers Of the GTaudenS, ROstock and
Stralsund type and a large number OF
destroyers, are to constitute Germany's
active naval force.
They may perhaps be strengthened
by some OF the large submarines OF
about 5000 tons Of which Danish tele-
grams have told US
Has 10000 Tor Invasion
.''Then the gigantic liners Will be held
in readiness to embark about 10000
troops, with which Germany hopes to
invade England.
The great question now Is whether
Germany is really strong enough in
human material to permit herself 70
send nearly two entire army corps
across the sea at a very great risk and
that at a moment when she seems de-
termined to force an issue on the west
ern front without Withdrawing any
troops from the Russian front2
For the sake Of argument let US sup
pose that Germany has the necessary
troops to spare, and let US also for tho
same reason suppose that in spite OF the
losses she has suffered on the sea and
in spite OF the great number Of her
liners which are interned in neutral
ports, she still has sufficient ships to
transport a small army, with all Its
saddle horses, its wagons, its artillery.
and other accessories
Even IL this be so Germany is faced
by the great difficulty which lies in
the fact that the convoy thus formed
must have an average speed great
enough 70 give II some chance OF avoid
ing being Intercepted by the British
fleet and either destroyed or dispersed.
in spite Of the efforts of the faster
squadron accompanying it, which is
thus deprived of one OF its principal adj
vantages. that of mobility.
Only slow Beats Left
1T must be remembered that Il hap
pens to be then great. fast German
liners which have been destroyed or in
termed The two great steamship COM
panies still have at their disposal the
gigantic new liners like the Amerika.
the George Washington. the Kaiserin
Augusta Victoria and the Cincinnati.
boats Of $4,000 to 5000 tons. but these
are, after all. only huge cargo boats
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