Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1914 — KIEL CANAL TO ENGLAND? [ARTICLE]
KIEL CANAL TO ENGLAND?
Germany Must Lose Fleet and Give Up Colonies, Says Lord. Stratford. England, via London, Oct 27. —The serious time of the war, said Ix>rd Charles Beresford in a speech here, would begin when the Germans were forced over the frontier and were in their own country and with their own base of supplies. This was not going to be a short war. Lord (liarles added. It would take more than six months or a year to put EmNobody knew what would happen peror William on his back, he said. In the next great naval battle in which modern instruments of warfare were used, Lord Charles continued. The element of luck would come into play, but luck or no luck, Germany, he declared, must be humbled and humiliated. “She must lose the whole of her fleet,” Lord Charles concluded, “giv© up the Kiel canal and her colonies; her forts must be demolished and the Krapp works razed to the ground ”
