GENERAL GORDON'S PREVISION OF THE WAR
A remarkable prevision of the war in a letter writteu by General Gordon in 1882 to Mr. Jamos I?. Purdy has been sent by a correspondent to the "Morning Post." General Gordon wrotn: — , "Every Briton should think of ths future of his country arid cause each one to insist on the Government passing a measure for compulsory universal training. So far as England is concerned, she need not, for the next quarter of a century, be under.any apprehension of serious difficulties arising with any of her European neighbours, but in 1910 or thereabouts there wiU have risen a naval Powor which may prove mightier than she, and should she (Germany) gain the supremacy, England will become extinct both as a soa anda land Poirw, and oil her dopendencies, including India, will fall into Germany's clutches. You may livo to see this. I shall not, but when that time comes, remember my words.",
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 November 1915, Page 5
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158GENERAL GORDON'S PREVISION OF THE WAR Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 November 1915, Page 5
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