THE GERMAN DANGER.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 September 1910, Page 3

THE GERMAN DANGER.

A SOCIALIST'S VIEWS

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[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! LOXDOX. September 3. Air Roibert Blatehford, editor of the. Clarion -who recently contributed a series of letters to the Daily Mail after a visit to German v. advocating more activity in British defence matters— commontm<l on Mr Maxwell's letters, says: " Germany intends to annex Holland and 'Belgium. We shall then lie unable to retain the command of the seas.

"Only an efficient army will prevent Germany from carrying out her aims', hence compulsory service is essential. The time lias come for the British people to make ■heroic efforts and sacrifices. Xo half measures will do."

(Chronicle Xote: Mr Blateliford, wlio is an old soldier, and a man of wide travel, is the leading English Socialist, and is on most amicable terms with Mr Hyndman, the well-known Socialist orator. Mr •Bin tch ford has threatened to 'cease publishing tlie_ Clarion—the organ of Englis'h Socialism, if his truths are unpalatable to tlie democracy. His articles in tlie Daily Mail last December made a profound impression. In those articles he declared it was not so much the intention of Germany to attack England as to overrun Belrrium and the Netherlands, (and throw portion of her army on Fiance. Tn such a case as that England would , ] be compelled to fight, in order to maintain the status (|iio in Europe and the command of the seas.)