THE THREATENED RAID ON LONDON.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 53, 19 October 1914, Page 4

THE THREATENED RAID ON LONDON.

Says an Australian writer on the war: Zeppelins may bombard London, but that will not affect the issue of the war. The greater their success in destroying the historic altars of the British race and the memorials that Britain since she was a nation has preserved inviolate, the greater the certainty that the national spirit of the British people and of the people of the British dominions will rise to the need and take terrible vengeance for their losses. The only way by which Germany can find a safe issue from this w-ar is by destroying the British Fleet.- Hence it may be pxpected that she will bend every effort to the work of destruction, but those who have closely watched the progress of the war so far will have no fears of the result. For Britain’s dominions the chief point to bear in mind is that this is, primarily, on the part of Germany a war for the acquisition of a colonial empire. If that German dream of oversea expansion is ever realised it will ho at the expense chiefly of those white communities, in every sea, over which the British flag at present flies. The iriore fitting is it therefore that the men of those communities who now enjoy such a measure of liberty as falls to the lot of only a minority among the white race should bear their share, as they are nobly doing, in helping to hurl back the “nation in arms” that would use its strength to rob them of their birthright.