Given to the President in September--1939
Excerpt of report by Commodore Dewey (later Admiral)
soon after the Battle of Manila (1898). Reported conversation 
with German Admiral Von Goetzen who prophesied that in fifteen 
years his country would start a Great War. Would move on Paris 
but real object would be to crush England and some months after 
take New York and Probably Washington and hold them for some time 
etc etc etc.
 
 
The above excerpt is in the Archives of the U.S.Navy Dept--Record 
38, Volume 52, Page 558.
 
 
See:Navy folder-Drawer 1-1939