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Show GERMAN PAPER i PTEBOASTFIli Declares Kail er Force Could Quickly Dispone of the I American in the War. i : , AMSTERDAM, via London. April 20, 10:10 p. m. "Will the American fleet, enablo our enemies to break our sub-mai'ina sub-mai'ina blockade? The ftaswer is, most , csriftjalv not ' ov3 cue KojXiik.2iie Volks Zeiiuiig, Tvmoh adauoeb & eun-ous eun-ous and cumulative argument which It evidently considers final that "the submarine sub-marine cure has not been invented. Therefore it cannot bo invented be-causo be-causo there is none." "It will bo painful for us," the newspaper news-paper continues, "to sink good German ships, but we cannot be sentimental in this respect and will dispose of America's seizures in fifteen to twenty days. The loss of German capital in that connection will hardly equal three days of our war expenditure." The Volks Zeilung next examines the possibility that the United States will send a fleet to German ports and river mouths to atlack tho submarines In their home bases and says that they will find Germany prepared and that the scheme is improbable as the United States probably would avoid any undertaking that might seriously diminish the number of fighting ships. The article boastingly concludes: "All in all, if our high seas fleet faced the American fleet in open battle, bat-tle, we would beat them very quickly and thoroughly. But this is unlikely because before that is possible, our submarines, with the mailed fist, will have imposed a law of world peace on the enemy and also, on America." |