A French Subjugation of England.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 218, 3 September 1887, Page 5

A French Subjugation of England.

A curious book, by an anonymous author, under the title of " Plus d'Angleterre," was recently published in Paris, where it created a decided sensation, mingled with mirth, in official and diplomatic circles. The work is seemingly a continuation of the series opened by the famous " Battle of Dorking," in which it is related that a French army, having eluded the British fleet, lands on the English shores, and in a decisive battle near London defeats the English forces and ultimately subjugates the country, deposing England for ever from her position as a first-class Power. In " England No More " there is a description of the failure of the British fleet to move at the decisive moment ; the landing of the French army at Hastings ; the taking of Tunbridge Wells, and the occupation of L >ndon, which cannot fail to interest the reader. The revolution in Ireland and the Gualdhill riots are also entertaining pages. The author sees in the invasion of Great Britain a means of obtaining the restoration of Alsace and Lorraine. Conquering France would offer Heligoland, Sierra Leone, tho Gold Coast, Cape Colony, the islands of Ceylon, New Zealand and the Vancouver islands to Germany, with the Fiji islands thrown in as a "makeweight." Tho fortifications of the annexed provinces would be demolished and France and Germany would shako hands over the discomfiture of England. The English journals generally make fun over this new evidence of Anglophobism in France. They maintain that if there were no more of England there would be a great deal more of Germany, the implacable foe of France. The auihor also forgets, among other things, that the population of France is daily diminishing, and that she has political adventurers enough to, destroy any unity of plan drawn up in the interests of the nation at large. Not only has France beon unablo to colonise in Algeria, within fifty hours of her boulevards, but she has not yet solved tho difficulty of her form of government.