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Show oo jM GIGANTIC BATTLE I r M Great Struggle Coming Which J t Will Put Dardanelles Fight J M in the Shade. -!'l GERMANY PREPARED ;M Will Probably Mass All ?M U-Boats Against American t M Transports Carrying ijl Troops. jl BERNE, Switzerland, via Paris, - April 13. The military critic of the H ' Basel Nachricbten believes that the '- entrance Into the war of the power- j ful American fleet will "sooner or later i lead to a revival of an aggressive sea )j policy against Germany and again will PJH probably culminate in a gigantic bat- ? H tie, which will put the Dardanelles iJ IH fight in the shade." HH The writer says that the allied fleets iJIH will find behind the German coast de- 'f fenses "an opponent who knows what j . disastrous results the success of such d t an Anglo-American undertaking would .M have for his fatherland." L United States Decisive Factor. H This observer further believes that H , if America attempts to transport H troops to Europe, Germany will abon- H don her submarine campaign in the rH J Mediterranean and mass all available ' . U-boats against the American trans- c . ports. He is dubious of the present b H . value of America as a military aid and a H says that tho standing army, the only IH ' present force fit for modern war, is . -H needed at home to watch Mexico. Ho ; jH calculates, however, that the United ' jH States has 15,000,000 men of military jH age whom it can equip and train and H that the entente has acquired an ally H who may prove the decisive factor in M the war. iJH |