Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-04
GERMAN ADMIRAL REJ0ICES
BECAUSE STAIN WIPED
FROM GERMAN NAVY
lContlnued from Page one.)

cided at the beginning OF November
mat our fleet should and could strike
a nara, perhaps a decisive, blow. We
acc ded that while cur armies We're
stubbornly and heroicaliy resisting in
the west our fleet should not remain
idle.
Our plan offered every chance of
success 1t was not one to send the
hISh seas fleet out to its death, but to
attack the coast of England in, the di-
re>tion Of the mouth of the Thames,
employing our submarines as flank
ana also our rear. By this plan we
hoped TO draw the British grand
ueet out of its Scottish lair and down
toward the mouth of the Thames to
give us battle, in which case the grand
fleet would have run into our flank
ing submarines
Success Seemed Certain.
our plan was carefully worked out
and offered the certainty of success
II the grand fleet come out. The one
chance of failure, we figured, was that
the British fleet might not be coaxed
out by our channel attack This
plan, naturally, could not be disclosed
to the men of our fleet. From the
preparations for this operation they
got the fatal idea into their propagan-
da -turned heads that the fleet was
about to be sent out to its death.
They argued, Why should we die on
ihe verge of peace and with nego-
tlations for an armistice going on"
IN this misguided frame of mind
they mutinied and started the revolu- |
ton which they have since come to
regret bitterly. They thought they
were doing right and that their action
would secure just and equitable |
peace for the ffherland They still
thought so when they took the ships
over to Scapa Flow to be informed. /
Il am convinced that not an officer |
or man would have been willing to
take the ships over to Scapa Flow if
they had known how the peace would I
ultimately be imposed And there is |
nothing to the charge of cowardice |
that Officers ana men should have
gone down fighting rather than sur
render the ships They all thought |
they were doing u high patriotic duty
in taking the ships over to be in
termed and that by helping to execute
inns term of the armistice they were
making possible the fair peace that
from nrona@a 'r'0 i nflnoro d(ei"o 'he
roaliaod - 49, ~, IN luell''S' ,hoN
atonnd for II Ia, ,.j,ii, ,pa fI r',t' Wy NY
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again"
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r,'tii, l''Ci e,'Se" us lllNal
can he djrertod onIv s sga S'' t,' a Tase
Ga" ''V uii .e" Oily against us allies
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,{,,, Ky n'' ~ o''lVl ""N"l rivals
tinnad C ,o,U ',,,. .o''' nav men
tr,.a,,o,,., ,l., ''''' . . navy Is gone
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ne ~ 80 p'r '"t' 10 Mics
t'io teI ms - peace Auhllfal
'7'mTer tApr,SSe TINS novel idea:
II tle kalsef ana the German
nlihlafy leaders really are placed be-
lofe court OF the allies, history will
regard it as a greater disgrace to the
allies than to Germany, Which surren-
dered her leaders,
The admiral is living in unostenta-
tious retirement of n newly built villa
on the outskirts of Weimar He is
working hard on his memoirs ana ie
going to give battle in lool, Farm, 70
Admiral JelIicoe whose "S,nr,, 81 tho
Grand Uvont ,,,..i,.. " ~