The Invasion

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to the danger of the unpreparedness of our present pos

inadequate forces, strongly urged that action should be taken in accordance with the recommendations of the Elgin Commission that "no milit

bilities and our largely augmented revenue. History tells us in the plainest terms that an Empire which cannot defend its own possessions must inevitably perish." And with this view both Lord Milner

how, under certain conditions which may easily occur, England can be successfully invaded by Germany; and to

forecast, based upon all the available military knowledge-which would bring home to the British public vividly and forcibly what really would occur were an enemy suddenly to appear in our midst. At the outset it was decla

tted to a number of the highest authorities on strategy, whose names, however, I am not permitted to divulge, and after many consultat

s of tactics each tactician consulted held a different vi

tions as they at present are, and then draw logical conclusions. This, aided by experts, was done: and after many days of a

of vantage, military positions, all the available landing places on the coast, all railway connections, and telephone and telegraph communications, were carefully noted for future reference. With the assistance of certain well-known military experts, the battlefields were ca

essed and published opinions of the first strategists of to-day, and that, as far as the forecast of events is concerned, it has been written from a first-hand knowledg

to suppress its publication altogether. Mr. R. C. Lehmann, who asked a question of the Prime Minister, declared that it was "calculated to prejudice our relations with the other Powers," while the late Sir H. Campbell-Ba

ous, yet it only confirmed the truth that the Government are strenuously seeking to conceal from our p

vite war: to be str

e form in which it originally appeared, and that other nations besides ourselves are interested in England's grave peril is proved b

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hold dear, let them bring home to themselves what would be the condition of Great Britain if it were to lose its wealth, its power, its position." The catastrophe that may happen if we still remain

ert