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Nonetheless, a certain amount of confusion regarding the intention of the raid was evident amongst the German participants. Subsequent interrogation produced the following various interpretations: – the raid had only local objectives; the naval demonstration was necessitated by the strained Turco-German relations as a result of Turkish dissatisfaction with the Palestine campaign; the intention was merely to sink the two British monitors known to be in Kusu Bay; the object was to furnish a magnificent gift to the Kaiser on the occasion of his forthcoming birthday; the object of the exit was for the hope of a good fight and not merely a demonstration; and, finally, one honest officer who admitted simply, ‘The object of the sortie was unknown.’
Vice-Admiral Hubert von Rebeur-Paschwitz(1863-1933) who replaced Souchon in 1917.
A former Navy Attache to Washington in 1899 and postwar acted as an aide for the exiled Kaiser in Doorn
