BRITISH POLITICS.
DISTURBING DEBATE. Received February 20, 8.27 a.m. LONDON, February 39. A disturbing debate occurred in the House of Lords relative to the risk of invasion of Great Britain. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts declared that the blindness of the public to the risk'of a sudden invasion—which was almost always carried out without any declaration of war —filled him with absolute despair at our state of unpreparedness. The Earl of Portsmouth, Parliamentary to the Army Council, expressed doubt that Germany or France, in a time of peace, would ever be guilty of the gross treachery Lord Roberts thought possible. The Marquis of Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty, deprecated alarmist hypothesis.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8364, 21 February 1907, Page 5
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110BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8364, 21 February 1907, Page 5
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