MARCH ON LONDON

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2350, 5 January 1915, Page 3

MARCH ON LONDON

KAISER'S PLANS—A FANTASTIC SCHEME. Believing as I do, after contaot with the soldiers and oivilians of all the nations under arras in Europe, that there are heroes under every nag, 1 believe I am unprejudiced in this war. But I believe firmly that the. Germans will invade England (cabled the London correspondent of tho Vancouver "Daily Province" on November 24). An outlino of the plan of invasion has beeu described to ma. When .the Kaiser opened the "wav game" ha had several weapons under cover of which the world knew nothing. The Krupp's newest Biege guns, the most formidable on earth; the 42-conti. metre, the 32-centimetre, and, above all, the which hurls a tremendous highly explosive projectile a great distance, have, been described to me. ' •

The Kaiser has ordered Calais to .ha taken at any oost. Capture it he .will try if it costs an army, corps for .each 61-centimetre gun planted on its steel and concrete foundation in Calais, with its terrific muzzle pointing towards Dover Castle. Krupp exports will place the guns ' in. position. ', -. : . . v ■The Kaiser possesses eight of these 61-centimetre guns that I know of. Ho will plant them in Calais if it costs him eight army corpsj 320,000 men. Of this 1 am. a66ured. From Calais to .Dover the English Channel, is only 22 miles. It is said the new gun will shoot. 20 miles. Now, as for German's plan to invade England. No one know6ite details, better than Lord Kitchener, one of the best soldiers on earth.,' Military experts of at least four nations'have tola mo . that had Great Britain made Lord Kitohener all-powerful over her ariny three years ago the world would 'be at peace now. The Kaiser has the greatest respect for Kitohener. " . Tho River Elbe for miles up from its mouth contains thousands of floats, rafts, and specially-constructed flatboats of deep draught, all. propelled-by petrol motors. I have seen them. - . After the Germans have captured Calais, if they are successful in doing so, many of these floats and rafts in the Elbe will be sent wild—without crews—into the English Channel, between Calais and Dover, to explode the mines which the English have planted there, almost as thickly as sturgeon eggs are packed! in a tin of oaviar. . . A tremendous artillery fire will bo kept up, although each mine exploded will coßt a raft or float. At the same time a large fleet of Taube aeroplanes will invade tho air over the English ooast, dropping bombs intended to throw into panio the people of Dover and of neighbouring towns. ' ■ „ , Closely following the Taubes a fleet of Zeppelin dirigibles, will protect the Channel, attack Dover, and, _ indeed, London, i I know that an incredible number of Zeppelins have been built with feverish haste in Germany in tho last few months. Fifty, factories are making parts of Zeppelins, and these parts ; are being assembled so expeditiously that a perfect Zeppelin is turned out every three days'.;, " . The combined attack of the, Zeppelins, the German general staff expects, will silence the British batteries at or near Dover, and put in peril the defending forces more than eight miles inland from Dover, which is to say out of range of' the German 61-centimetre guns at Calais. „ ~ . Each of the new Zeppelins carries at least four tons weight of high explosive or petrol bombs. The latter, bursting into flames when they, strike, ignite anything inflammable. Behind the Zeppelins will approach the English coasts-remember I am telling only the; sketchy outline of the German plan, of which I have been informed—the submarines and the small fast cruisers, preceding ..the German Dreadnoughts. These will take the line cleared of mines by the floats. Following tlie German fleet ■will steaman armada of transports and great deep flat-boats, carrying the German army of invasion. The purpose is to land at least 10,000 men an hour, eo that in a day and a night there will be 250,000 invaders on English soil. Then the Germans expect to march' on London. . • ' ,