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Show BRITISH FLEET CONTROLS SEAS Naval Expert Admits German Navy Is Unable to Compete Com-pete With English. WARNS GERMAN MINDS Unrestricted Submarining Is Only Effective Sea Weapon But Success Not Possible. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 4. Captain Perseus, naval expert of the Berliner Tagoblatt, in a review of the third naval year of the war, says the superiority super-iority of the British fleet, despite heavy losses, is great enough to justify jus-tify its claim that it controls the seas. The German fleet Is unequal to meet It, The high seas fleet. In conjunction with the coast defense guns, submarines, subma-rines, mines, etc, will undoubtedly be able to beat off all attacks and keep the enemy from tho coast but he adds warningly German minds should give no room to viows of an offensive activity activ-ity of the fleet. Captain Perseus says that every intelligent in-telligent German realizes that unrestricted unre-stricted submarining must bo conducted conduct-ed with all energy until England realizes real-izes it Is more profitable to discuss peace than to accept further losses, but on tho other hand he warns against superoptimlsm for a too speedy success in the submarine war In view of the amount of world ton-nage ton-nage and tho great shipbuilding possibilities pos-sibilities avallablo for tlie entente. |