INVASION POSSIBILITY
DESPERATE GERMAN HOPE. A cable message to the Australian papers, sent from London on March. 27th, states: — The situation of Germany is regarded as desperate by Colonel Repington, the military correspondent of the ''London Times." Owing to the Allies' accumulated strength, he discounts the possibility of the enemy attacking either the oast or the west front. The overwhelming British superiority in field and machine-guns, he says, is likely to repulse any offensive with overwhelming losses, rendering it impossible for Gennany to continue the war. Tho invasion of the British Isles must not bo overlooked, because tho Navy is tho only great German war weapon which has so far not been used in tho larger sense. A successful invasion and a deadly blow at the heart of the alliance offers the only visible escape from a desperate situation. Germany obviousip hoped to escape sacrificing her navy, thinking that her armies would be victorious. As this hope recedes only the conviction that failure would be inevitable would prevent an attempted invasion.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15873, 12 April 1917, Page 6
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