The Kaiser: "Your ruthlessness has failed, Tirpitz; I must pin my faith to Count Zeppelin."
The ruthless submarine policy introduced by von Tirpitz earlier in the war and which was guaranteed to "bring proud Albion to her knees" had completely failed in its object by Spring, 1916. After a bitter fight between von Tirpitz and his opponents of whom the chief was the Chancellor himself, the Admiral on March 16, 1916, resigned his office of Secretary of State for the Imperial Navy.
GOTT STRAFE ENGLAND
"Father says I must do the same with France"