CAN BRITAIN BE RAIDED?

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3044, 3 April 1917, Page 7

CAN BRITAIN BE RAIDED?

POSSIBILITY DISCUSSED BY EMINENT AUTHORITY v DESPERATE ATTEMPTS NOT UNLIKELY London, April 1. 11l an article in the "Weekly Dispatch/ 1 General Sir , O'Mooro Creaßb, late Commander-in-Chief in India, disousses the serious possibility of an invasion or a great raid in ordeito assist the submarine campaign i b.v destroying shipping in' tho ports, burning foodstuffs, and devastating the country. He argues thht befbro Germany- is defeated sho will exhaust her resourc\;, including the navy,' wliich cannot hope to defeat the Grand Fleet, even with luck, but inight, during a feint of battle, rush a number of raiders into the Atlantic. The'navy might secure a stretch of British waters long enough to permit the landing of raiding parties trained to devastate the country. . ' Tho article states that VOll Hindenburg has a strategic resorve of a million men, with win'oli lie may striko for Calais. Verdun, Pctrograd" or the Venetian /Plain : or under the cover of a. great naval batija. send them in'ai fleet 'of transports to England in the hope that a large number would, mako a. landing. The Hindeiiburg desper- ] adoes would play devilish tricks, buf.'! considering our resources in men, our railways, and v our plans for defence, mo invader should bo at liberty after four lioijrs. A desnerato series of such raiding iuvasions can bo expected as an endeavour to croate a pome, disorganise the railways and destroy shrpping and food. These are certain to fail, after wliieli ,Germany will lib hopelessly bankrupt of resource's, 'and wilhhcg for police.—A«s.-N.Z. ; Gable Assn. ;