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BBITATN'S PABT ON LA2SD>
3ITJCH IMPORTANCE ATTACHED
TO EXPEDIIIONAJIY FORCE.
(Received August 15th, 12.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 14.
Mach importance is being placed on tho assistance a British. Expeditionary Force can give to tho French. The nval armies are so nearly balanced that two or three army corps added to one side or tho other may produce a v;tal effect.
A prominent European commander considers that a Continental war may !?j«t for throe years, but economic and iiitWial esporfcs maintain that famine and financial stringency will crush Germany within six months, unless she accomplishes soiuo strikingly decisive nr'itary victories.
Mr Archibald Hurd, tho well-known rarval export, writing in the "Daily Topograph," expresses tho view that no tremendous invading force could bo tinded in Great Britain. Ho says it Iβ difficult perceive what objeofc could be served ',y larding a few thousand troops in a country having wore than hjilf a million men under arms. Such ar: adventaie would not cause more thin a temporary panic in tho district directly affected. This feeling would epeedily givo place to ono that the invaders must be captured or shot in tho shortest possible time Nevertheless, it ia possible suoti raids will be attempted, because many Gcnrans bolievo that if one or moro wore eucccesfu:ly carried out a panic -would be created which would have an appreciable effect bolli in England and on tho ContLont.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15047, 15 August 1914, Page 11
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233LATEST NEWS. Press, Volume L, Issue 15047, 15 August 1914, Page 11
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