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PRESS. TUESDAY, APRIL 16ra, 1918,

THE POSSIBILITY OF INVASION. It has alwas beon my opinion that the security of these lelands is the pivot ou which the whole war turns, and that nothing can compensate for the neglect of home defence, says Lieut. Col. Reping ton in the orning Post of February 10th

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We can afford to loạn a battle almost anywhere oversea without neces sarily affecting the result of the war er the conduct of other operations, but a battle lost within these islands, followed up by the seizure by the enemy of the capital or of vital centres of manufactur ing activity, is a blow at the heart which will bring all our other operations to

an untimely end, since these islands are our base in a great war, and all our activities are dependent upon it.

The temptation to invade England bas entered the minds of many great cong querors, and only vanishes when adequate venture demonstrably too hazardous. preparations on sea and land make the.

That it will be costly and even disastrous now we all hope and believe, but that it may be attempted is not one of the hypotheses that we can afford to rule out. A great German offensive in the the enemy anything from 500,000 men West against the Allied Armiles may cost upwards, and will not necessarily succeed. The landing in England might cost cumparatively small losses, and the damage done by a force which penetrated to London might be irreparable. Danger for langer, and sacrifice for sacrifice, the invasion of these islands does not appear to offer more risks than the great stroke against our armies, and promises greater results. It is one against which, even when our main interest is centred elsa- the command of the narrow seas can where, must be constantly on our guard.

he won by Germany for twenty-four hours I see no good reason why a con It is not only useless but highty dansiderable force of the enemy should not gerous

to proceed with any oversca o landed in England, provided that they were prepared to find their sen communi operations ageing to powerful enemy cations subsequently mut. I enn cortnin. before we have fitted out the heart of tho I see no reason why 70 transports should Empire with completo defensive armour not come in the convoy, why the last liners and otlier large merchant vessela and it is only on the basis of adequate in Gerrann ports should not be used, nor defence at honte that exterior operations why more than gross tons per man

This defence can be indulged in. always, in all our great war bebould be allotted to the carriage of the troops. The maneuvring of such a assured by combined land and sen convoy could be assured by the personnel parations, and never by one Service of the German Navy after practice in alone. Still less is the sea alone a sure Kiel harbour or the Heligoland Bight, defence, for, if it had becu, we should not have been often invaded in the and, of course, every conceivable pic remote pust by people on the other side cantion would be taken to ensure sur of the North Bea

prise. I have no doubt that we shall discover nt some future date that a plan of invasion has been as constantly made, altered, and abandoned as was the case in the days of Napoleon, and that it is got the German will to harm us that will Prevent the delivery of the stroke, but solely and only our own preparations to resist it

METHODS OF DEFENCE,

When people talk of the length of line which we are holding in France and Belgium, they forget the great length of our own cast line which we have to watch and defend. Anyone who is per- mitted to visit any sector on this coast will appreciate the extent of the pre-

I should not be justified in alluding to our present home defence arrangements, and the less good I thought them the less should I be justified in writing about them, but there are certain basic con siderations which came out during inquiries made before this war broke out and certain conclusions arrived at by competent soldiers which may I think be alluded to without revealing anything that ought to be kept bidden I have no patience at all with silly people who no about saying that they are prepared to take risks at home; unless it can the proved, which it cannot be, that some. thing else than the refusal of War Cabinet to ask the country for men is at the bottom of the suggestionparations made, and, by remembering the On two occasions, in 1907 and 1913, will gain an impression of the magnitude length of our most exposed ocastline, Field Marshal Lord Roberts and I, with of the whole task. The defence of our two other officers now serving, brought this question before the old Defence mittee, and in 1909 Mr. Asquith announced that the basis was to be against 70,000 graders. The 1913 inquiry was interrupted by the war, and I do not know what the conclusion was

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Eastern and Southern coasts is not a duty which can be carried out success- fully by weak or poorly-trained troops, and at this particular crisis of the war so risks must be taken there.

There are many methods of defonding What change, there may have been constline, and possibly our methods since I cannot say, but I should feel have been changed from time to time. reluctance to accept any figure less than But there are two main methods which that which the two Field Marshals recore. have been advocated before the war, and mended. I have no doubt that there are it will be interceting to learn later on many inore met in khaki in these islands whether one or other has been used by now than 800,000, but whether they are us. In the first method the main defence available fighting men is another matter, is upon the actual beach, whore every the sick and wounded, preparation is made to receive the jummonse administrative services, the enemy and oppose him. In the second garrisons of naval sud other ports, the method the coast line is only watched, Royal Defence Corps, the schools, depets, and the defence relies upon the rapid and training establishments, the result arrival of reserves. In the first method ing figure of Sighting men is not great the enemy will be more vigorously receiv compared with the aggregate.ed on landing, but this method, which is I have no doubt that Germany has had really a new application of the cordon continually in mind the invasion of these system, has the defect of leaving the islands, and has all the alternative plans troops weak everywhere, and liable to be for it in order. Now, for the art time, driven in by an attack provided with neither her Navy nor her Army has to suitable cuvering force in the form of think of a war on two fronts, and as her men-of-war using smokescreeds to con- Army is now concentrating in the West ceal their movements. It leads to a great so is her Navy presumably concentrating dispersion of force, and the strength of for operations in the North Sea. I do the chain is that of its weakest link. In not know whether she proposes to hazard the second method the coast is only the great gamble of invasion, but cer watched in cooperation with the Navy, tainly she has the ships, men, mixes, but supports are suitably placed to enbaurines,

and aircraft which may her to make the attempt, and arrive within a few hours, and cyclists, is certain that the development of all the for guus all come into play. In rear mounted troops, and niechanical traction new means of naval war promises opera are the reserves at the railway junctions tions of which past experience supplies with trains prepared for them, and this no procedent.

Considering the numerical preponder troops to be kept assembled for training method has the advantage of enabling ance of the Allied Navies there is every and to reach a higher standard of field oxpectation that the attempt should failetticiency. In all methods a regular In an old classic naval action there could service of use between the Navy and only be one result from the meeting of the Army is not only necessary but ab- the opposing forces, but such a meeting solutely indispensable. the Germans will necessary seek to avoid.

It has buen shown in this war that single It is impracticable to give more than ships, and even small squadrons and few general principles involved in this flotillas, can insult our coasts and cut off important aspect of defence, and it is convoys from the Shetland Islands to not practicable to describe what has been. the Straits of Dover, within a consider done or to approve or disapprove. able measure of impunity, and it has Home defence is in the hands of compet usually been admitted, even before the ent authorities, and the War Cabinet war, that the landing of a raiding party must be assumed to know all about this was not impracticable. The comparative matter and to be responsible subject to immunity of the German naval raiders may conceivably encourage them to fur But one must admit that the views of et the advice given by the General Staff.

which mines, submarines, and aircraft tions to be made vary a great deal, and largely figure necessarily involves a pro- our old wars, while the dependence of warships of all types upon coal of dit and the limitations set by these new proof propulsion upon the radius of

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THE RED CROSS DIAMOND.

Bacon says in his essay "Of Goodness" that "In charity there is no excess," yet by their superb gift to the Red Cross of a world-renowned diamond the Dia No one knows yet what the German and Syndicate of London has challenged plaas in the West may be but if they the truth of the dictum, for the stone involve a series of great attacks upon £20,000. The diamond was discovered in is valued by experts as worth at least the Allied Armies I find it difficult to 1901 in the De Beers Company suppose that these will not be supple Griqualand West. It originally weighed

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