THE SEA GIRT ISLE.
| y> . GREAT BRITAIN AND FOREIGN INVASION. (BY ELECTRIC TKLEGRArH--C?OPrRIGHT.] [I'Kll I'KESS ASSOCIATION. J (Received '11 lis Day, U.lO a.m.) , LONDON, January 1(3. | In ; 6li-o .second edition oi' General lan Hamilton's work on compulsory • service. Admiral Wilson adds an appendix emphasising that Britain's defence is, tiro-fold, comprising, firstly, .son-going Hoots, and, secondly, mobile mosquito craft, including 170 ' destroyers and t-orpedoers, "ami fifty submaj'ines stretching between Dundee, Dover and Devon port. Admiral Wilson points out that the really serious ■clanger is the interrupting of trade and. the destruction -of merchant shipping. All ships operating in home waters, ho adds, arc in wireless communication and are so disposed as to make an invasion on even a moderate scale of 70,000 men practically impossible.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 January 1911, Page 3
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124THE SEA GIRT ISLE. Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 January 1911, Page 3
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