WHAT FRANCE REQUIRES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1773, 11 June 1913, Page 7

WHAT FRANCE REQUIRES.

A BRITISH FORCE OP 20 DIVISIONS ON THE HEUSE IN WAR TIME. ' Paris, April 2. The British opinion concerning the military situation on tlio Continent, according to a special article contributed to the "Temps" by General tie Lacroix, is based upon misunderstandings. It is a fallacy, tho writer says, to arguo that the support of tho British Navy would bo worth half a million men in tlio field to France. Tho help of tho Navy would mnko no difference in the employment or distribution of the French land forces. Tho assistance Great Britain could give is summed up as the effective co-operation of her army on tho Continent. "llow could Great. Britain." aslcs tho general, "lonvo tho defence of lier Continental interests to Russia? Napoleon was beaten not at Trafalgar, but at Waterloo. In face of tho German peril Great Britain is in the same position to-day. It is her support on tho Mcuso that would coun-ler-balanco Germany's numerical superiority. Her fleets and her Territorial armv, however numerous, would present no obstacle to the Gorman advance on the Continent. Only a good expeditionary, jinny of from fifteen to twenty divisions'could guarantee to Great Britain, unitw'i with France, a victory in Europo, and ('hereby tho maintenance of her position in tho world.—Router.