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THE GALLANT GERMAN NAVY One of the oddest kinks in the kinky imperial mind is revealed in the reference to my navy in the kaisers proclamation addressed to his military establishment My navy he says is holding its own against the united enemy naval forces and supporting the army in its difficult struggle Only a Teutonic mind could get any glory out of the performances of a navy that for four years has been skulking around the Kiel Canal and running every time an enemy ship was sighted With such a battle scheme holding its own was not the most difficult mutter in the world worldIf If you refuse to fight it is certain that in one sense you cannot lose In that sense the German navy has been a glorious victor It has lost noth ¬ ing because it has risked nothing The kaisers grandiloquent phrase gives the impression that the German navy has boon rushing out every day to give battle to the united enemy naval forces against great odds anil coining out of the struggle with honors tven What would the English and American fleets give for a chance at the German navy if it coiilil be got away from its hole But there is no chance It is so much easier to win victories by running and hiding Tlie worst you can do is hold your owu Indianapolis News
