STORY OF THE WAR
AUTHORITIES REJECTED PLAN. • 1 LONDON, September 18. The whole course of the Great War 'oh the Western Front might have been" changed, says Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, if the authorities had persisted in his plan of a landing on the coast of Belgium. The fully story of the plan is told for the ■ first time in the admiral’s book, ‘“The Story of the Dover Patrol.” The plan Iselected three objectives ' between Ostend and Westende, which was ,the flank of the German line. Jt involved' the employment of 14,000 nicked troops equipped with tanks and artillery., These were prepared to the last detail. Tanks able to climb the coastal seawall and pontoons, 5001 long, to be pushed by monitors, awaited the signal month after month; Submarines explored the coast, tank crews practised climbing a dummy seawall, and monitors and pontoons were nerfected in manoeuvres.
; The projected landing was abandoned in 1917, Sir Reginald states, owing to the failure of the British nft'ensive at Passehendidde. '
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1932, Page 3
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167STORY OF THE WAR Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1932, Page 3
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