MARCH ON LONDON.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 170, 4 January 1915, Page 6

MARCH ON LONDON.

KAISER'S PLANS. DESCRIPTION OF FANTASTIC SCHEME. Believing as I do, after contact with the soldiers and civilians of all the nations under arms in Europe, that there are heroes under every Hag, 1 he"lieve I am unprejudiced in this war. But I firmly believe that the Germans will invade England (cabled the London correspondent of the Vancouver Daily Province on November 24). An outline of the plan has been described to me. When the Kaiser opened the ''war game," he had several weapons, under cover of which the world knew nothing. The Krupps' newest siege guns, the most formidable on earth; the 42-centinietro, the 32-centimetre, and, above all, the Gl-.centimctre, which hurls a tremendously high explosive shell a tremendous distance, have been described to me. The Kaiser has ordered Calais to be taken at any cost. Capture it lie will try if it is costs an army corps for each (j'l-centimctre gun planted on its steel and concrete foundations in Calais, with its terrific muzzle pointing towards Dover Castle. Krupp experts will place the guns in position. The Kaiser possesses eight of these 01centimctre guns that I know of. He will plant them in Calais if is costs eight army corps, 320,000 men. Of this I am assured. From Calais to Dover the English Channel is only 22 miles wide. It is said that the new gun will shoot thirty miles. Now, as for Germany's plan to invade England. No one knows its details better than Lord Kitchener, one of the best soldiers on earth. Military experts of at least four nations have told me that had Great Britain made Lord Kitchener all-powerful over its army three years ago, there would have been no war now. The Kaiser has the greatest respect for 'Kitchener. The river Elbe for miles from its mouth contains thousands .-of floats, •rafts, and specially-constructed l!at_ boats of deep-draught, all propelled l)y petrol motors. I have seen them. After the Germans have captured Calais, if they are successful in doing so, many of these floats and rafts in the Elbe will be sent wild—without crews —into the English Channel, between Calais and I Dover, to explode the mines which the English have planted there, almost as thickly r as sturgeon eggs are packed in a tin of caviare. IA tremendous artillery fire will be kept up, although each mine exploded will cost a raft or float. At the same time a large fleet of Tauhe aeroplanes will invade the air over the English coast, dropping bombs intended to throw into panic the people of Dover and of neighboring towns. | Closely following the Taubes a fleet of Zeppelin airships will protect tha Channel, attack Dover, and, indeed, London. I know that an incredible number of Zeppelins have been built with feverish haste in Germany in the last few months. Fifty factories are making parts of Zeppelins, and these parts are being assembled so expeditiously that a perfect Zeppelin is turned out in every three days. The combined attack of the Zeppelin the German general staff expects, wi!{ silence the British batteries at or nca,' Dover, and put in peril the defending forces more than eight miles inland from Dover, which is to say out of range of the fll-centiinetre guns at Calais. Each of the new Zeppelins carries at least four tons of high explosive or petrol bombs. The latter, bursting into flames when they strike, ignite anything inflammable. Behind tho Zeppelins will approach the ! English coast —remember, I am telling only the sketchy outline of the German plan, of which I have been informed, | submarines and the fast cruisers ' preceding the German dreadnoughts. I These will takes the line cleared of mines by the floats. I Following the German fleet, will steam an armada of transports and great dee;) flat-boats, carrying tie German army of invasion. The purpose is to land at least 10,000 an hour, so that in a day and night there will bo 250,000 invaders on English soil. Then the Germans expect to march on i London.