BRITAIN'S SAFETY.
UNPREPARED FOR WARGERMANY SUPERIOR AT ALL 1 POINTS. LORD ROBERTS'S APPEAL. Br MeErnnli-Pross Associatian-Conyrieht (Hoc. October 23, 10.15 p.m.) London, October 23. Field Marshal Lord Roberts, in presiding nl a National Service League dcnionstrnlion (it Manchester, delivered h *pcoch iiiwJiicli he declared that, as in 18GG and IS7O, war might occur in an instant. The forces of Germany had superiority at every point, and Great Britain 'had lost command of every sea e;;cept the North Sen, where her supremacy was disputed, and where Germany had always advanced. Lord Curzon declared that national service would be a. tonic for the nation, lie did not fear the alleged, unpopularity of the scheme, as the people were not so sunk in selfishness and indulgence as to 1)0 deaf to the call of duty. The crisis in the Balkans showed the suddenness of an outbreak of war. The nation would be trebly fools to hug the notion that the country could never be invaded, when it had the sinister figure of the greatest land Power on the Continent converting itself into a great naval Power.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1579, 24 October 1912, Page 5
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183BRITAIN'S SAFETY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1579, 24 October 1912, Page 5
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