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THE CHANCE OF INVASION.>>
DOES GERMANY STILL DREAM OF IT!
Sole Manufacturers :: 1. T. DAVENPORT, LIN.... Londen, S.E.
moment, the enemy may deem to offer favourable opportunity.
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Forss required to hunt him down and destroy him? In his conr: as we know teoin various congratulatory mesagen published after the Falklands, there was en Australian and Japanese Seet," each of unkaowy dimensions. Two British Difps of 99,00 m, under instructions to ench for him, wore sink on November Est, 1911; and although at the Falkland harde we had eight ships agicst ve. and, 87.300 tws against $1,052, var of the enemy whips, evapod. The tonnage employed to search for ved Spo sopre- Exanted anything from five to terrime the
tonnage of his own feet.
is
the same position on a smaller scale represented by the ** Moowo."" Adilough, wisely enough the Admiralty' have made no statement whatever on the matter, it cannot be doubted here any more than it is in Germany that a perfect wwarm of ergisers was despatched to trek, down and destroy this pestilent ex-tramp. E the Germans could get ten" Moewey ** to sea az siatter them over the world before thy began their operations; if they could, by henk or by ereck, sneak out of the North Sun with two or three battle-crisis while making a faint in force in the Hirection of the Hegger Bank, it is morally certain that air available. 'force in Heme waters would be very materially diminished until such time as Pibe „encaped -enemy ships had ben
accounted for.
General von Ardenne relied mainly upon mines for wwwsing the interference kal raw Baril Fleet We have ample ovidpure that our sources are not yet equal to the task di preventing mine. laying in the North Sen, for this wok is still being done by disguised hitting trailers and submarines.
storma.."
In his many arments, f axuberanee, Polonel Churchill referred to the Grand Wort as lying în a ** shroudel throne amid the northern įtiarmany, of course, needs retelling an that score: but what would be her obvines (course it she desired to cut tits feet of from the nthern waters of the North Sea? The careful and continuous femployment of mite-laying submarines I
non uleggjamely checked by the counter- action of ear sweepers. night in te lead to the creation of such a barrier agross the North Sea that no fleet could pass through it without suffering enormous
losu.
We have no means of knowing whether
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The old and most respected argumenty such as barrier. We only knew that in agnirst an attempted invasion were the "me form or another the policy of mine- impossibility of a secret mobilisation of laying is being, vigorously pursued and For many years before the outbreak of troops, the impossibility of collecting the that it is in the last degree unlikely that war (writes a Naval correspondent of the necessary. shipping in Gorran harbours it is being pursued in a haphazard fashion Daily Mail), the invasion of England without the whole world knowing what without any. Beñnite chjeas in view, was one of the most dearly cherished was the wind and last, but not least, sort ef" Milky Way" of mines, supported schemes of the German General Staff, the Britisy Mary.
en the inner side by flotillas of submarines and from 1906 upwards the idea govern- Take these things in order. Thua, behind them, by a dest of heavily 610ing the distribution of the British Fleet mobilisation of troops is no lenger-armed ship of the supposedly unsinkable
was the frustration of this particular problemit is an accomplished fact-type described in The Daily, Mall Teutonic ambition. When, in 1907, Secondly, there are known to be in recently, might come perilously hear to considerable naval force was, after an German ports 829 German ships of 100 forming a sufficient protection for a fiset interval of many decades, permanently tons gross or over, 83 British ships (80 of Cineroan transports.
While, therefore, the enemy's prospects Secretary of the Admiralty declared that and probably 40 ships of the Allies would be remote enough, the possibility the chief result of the arrangement would captured or detained with a tonnage of of an invasion or sericus mid being beadditional security to the people of about 10,000. The total number of such attempted is not boe that we these islands against what I believe is ships lying in all enemy ports is 51, of authorities in afford to ignore.. their only danger a sudden maid--and 43,592 tons. In short, the total, Brigadier.General Bewicke-Copley, speak- that, I hope, is not a serious one." morecatile tonnage available in Germaning at Leeds a fortnight ago, was reported
Carpets and Rugs Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Bed- room Furniture, Brass Bedstead, Double sad Single Brass mounted Bedstenda, Sideboard, Diazer Waggons, Extension WANTED Furnished, partly famih stationed in the North Sea, the then detained and 3 captured) of 180,714 tons;
Dining Tables and Chair, Tea and Uccasional Tables, etc., etc., Dinner, Tex and Coffee Servicos, Crockory, Glass and E-P. Wazn, Cooking Stoves, Cutlery, Tollat Bots, Ice Obesta, at, Bath Room Utensils, alc
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NOTICE is hereby given that I have This Day BEMOVED my Office quantity of Buckwood Furniture, Pieto No. 10, Des Voeux, Road Centrul tures Engravings, etc. Bath Tubs, (1st Floor)." American Tre Chest, etcy
OTTO KONG SING,
Solicitor. Hongkong, Way, J. 1816.
And
A few hos of Brass Vives and Flower
Pots.
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HUGHES & HOUGE,
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Hongrong. April 29, 1916.
FOR SALE
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One four Cylindered Marine Engine 12-16 horse power complete with Magneto, Reverse Gear, Shaft, Propellor,
Full particulars may be had from the undersigned
TaxCash
HUGHES & BOUGE,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, May 4, 1910-
LEE YEE'S HAIR DRESSING BALCON" Electric Facial Massge with
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A survey of the Navy Estimates of ports is about 1,100,000, divided among as vaging: It is necessary to have recent years and of further changes in some 150 ships. Even if the aggregate be three million men in readiness to replace feet dispositions shows that this ides reduced by 300,000 tons to allow for men, at the front, or it may happen what gained in strength as time went on. development of the Firths. of Forth and unsuitable, or otherwise unavailable, these for Home defence."
The vessels converted insu warships, the small, assecond three million may be required Cromarty "as naval bases; the establish remain 800,000 tons of shipping sufficient. They are not empty words, ment of the patrol fictifea of destroyers, on expert reckoning for the transport of Gommans know that England is the lock torpedo-boats, and submarines, with banes eight army corpe with all their necessary that bolts the door of victory against stretching from Dover to Invergordon; guns, ammunition, horses, and vehicles, them. Their deet in untried. It i the preparation for me in emergency of and thirty days' supply of food for horses beyond question vistly stronger to-day other bases along the coast and extending and man.
than when the war began. Is it coacely. much farther north-all these things were The problem of the copcentration of the able that it should be allowed to rent in
EVERY BEETLE tertaken with the sole object of mea and the shipping for transport does idleness until the return of peace?
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| checkmating the aggressive designs of the not, therefore, exist, for the men and material are lying ready to Fazl. There Is an attempted invasion si these remains, however, the particularly large islands worth treating today as a practical problem of the British Navy.
Remember that Great proposition 2 Britain, with all her mistakes and all har is far too formidable for the enemy to glass of boys chose to put her on it. failites, is the hand and front of the contemplate a head-on attack; but he "How did Noah spend his time when be Copposition to the Kiser's ambitions. kuows from his war experience that there For a moment the teacher did not know was in the aric. came the first question. Had our sex power been used to ita aro means of reducing that asperiority.what to say. At last she hazarded, fullest extent from the first her of the When the azuiser squadron of von Spee "Well, perhaps he fished." war the chances are that Europe would niready be returning to her normal paths On the other hand, Britain and her res power have alone made the ultimately successful prosecution of the war prasible for the Allies. Without it no troops could have left cur shores or have been brought lo Europe from our Dominions and those. of France. England, if not invaded, would have been starved within s com- parationly few weeks; and all the munitions of war that the Allies are
lind concluded ber Our zaval superiority in the North Ses said she would answer any question her
CHARMING OPERETTA, will be obtained in such profesion froze America A performed by the Pupils of the would hars gone instead to Germany. Anglo-French School at St. Paul's Institute Causeway Pay, on May 10TH, Britain remains, therefore, the arch. 11ru and 13г, commencing at GP.M.
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