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Show ENGLAND AT WAR England s first blow is apt to be struck with, great speed The Engl sh war fleet eons st ng of twenty nine battle eh ps and auxi) ar es ib in, the North sea and should be able to come in touch with the German fleet with a th rty s x or forty e ght hours If the Engl sh can dest oy the Ge man fleet the rema nder of the warl k operat ons aga nst Germany w 11 be s mpl fled I i greatly England w 11 then be n a pos t on to stop all commerce w th Germany by sea and to land Engl sh trodps la Belg um and Holland to pro tect the neut al ty of the low countr es It w 11 also be poss ble if m 1 tary ex gene es requ re to land French End sh or Fuss an troops on the coast r f Germany under the protect on of the conquer ng fleet The demonstrat ons for war n Eng land are probably more genuine than jf those in any other country The reports , from St Petersburg Berlin and V enna bore the stamp of offic alisn Thoy were part of the war measures and were de ' S! 8 Ened have a moral effect upon the ' enemy In England however the great ' stal e for wh ch the country is play ng ' is thoroughly understood n all ranks of A soc ety The people of England have is $ felt for a decade that the grow ng , power of Germany on the sea was a K menace to the commerc al supremacy swj of Great B ta n and they have fore seen the t me when a r cher and greater I. Germany would be able to send out a Wj. Sa. navy capable of cop ng on eq al terms KSBV with the i own and thus permitt ng an Ep invas on of England by German arms p The destruct on of the ka ser s fleet at Bjsv th g t me w 11 el m nate at one blow the RmM g eatest menace to England Ger B9E n any s po ver on the sea would be n ' cone de able for perhaps a generat on Sfjfi While England s power would be n MMjf creas ng g gant cally every year More MP over unless the Ge man fleet is de H stroyed Germany will occupy and hold Hrdr. ,Bellum and Holland after she tr umphs BBIl over E ance and the German emp re BPS then will be iust across the Engl sh Bfe channel (from England Erajlj In conseq ence the Engl sh people 3g5 velo&me a war wh ch her naval and pSJ I mil tary experts have frequently rged England to provoke so that she m ght i-jSl be able to crush her German r val And w that war has been forced upon England w thout any ove t act on her J - part the Engl sh people w 1 have a - Jf juuch clearer consc ence than it they 'HP ai orce' "la Mr upon Germany |