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Show SAY8 GERMANY'S ', j PUpP08E I8TO lr RETAIN ANTWERP London, Oct, l'it TCprl Qurzun p! ' KedT6slon,,"formery, Vlcorfly1 onndia', In a speech at n war meotmji'ftt Han T(n school tonight said tho taking ot Antworp was n dollbcrato part of 'bo German plan. "Germany has taken Antwerp to fortify It, to keep It, to make a great navnl port ot It, to use It as n great Jumping off place for her future at tempts upon this country. It is no temporary occupation unless wo umlto it so." Tho sponker added that bv fortifying forti-fying Antwerp, Germany would sc-euro sc-euro a grip upon the whole ot Uelgl-um, Uelgl-um, make Holland play her will nnd then settle down td her main object tho destruction of this country. Englnud was in for a long war, ho said, and declared that he. was bhock-ed bhock-ed that some peoplo would think hostilities hos-tilities would bo over by Christmas. In his opinion more than one Christmas would roll by before the; ending of hostilities. In conclusion he advised his hearers not to begin, to divide up the German empire "before "be-fore you have got hold of it.''" |