THE REAL PERIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 158, 13 October 1910, Page 5

THE REAL PERIL.

SLUMBERING AND SNORING BRITAIN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. London, October 11. Dr. George Morrison, China co"n:sjKin.lont of the Times, speaking at tin Authors' Club, said that the peooie of England spoke of the yellow peril, foigett'ng there was an ever-pves Mil ail mere ilvid menace in the E'lrijnun peril "We constantly rcf3v:.<l to the awakening of other countries, but was not England, with her unwillingness to train aor sins to defend >luinb"'ing and si'oring while o"f|V' rations to give us our lesson were proceeding with terrible rapidity almost at our doors?"

INCREASING THE NAVY. BIGGER ARMIES ADVOCATED. Received 12, 9.45 p.m. London, October 12. Lord Charles Berrsford, speaking at the Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield, insisted on the need for increasing the fleet, addins that if the overesa supply of food and raw material were stopped for a month the Government would be forced to treat with the enemy. Mr. Haldane, the War Minister, said: "We must keep the command of the sea and possibly will he obliged to strengthen the navy." Besides the great professional overseas army, said Lord Charles, we must have a citizen army whose sheer weight would crush an invading force and compel an invader to coine in such strength that the transports would be a sure target for the navy."