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Show oo- GERMANS ARE TO HI! AT ENGLAND London, Nov. 23. 10:45 P m Plans for dealing with a possible C.erman invasion were spoken of in the house of commons tonight by Undersecretary Undersecre-tary for War Tennant. W. C. Brldqernan. member from Shropshire, asked whether the wearing wear-ing of hrass.irds would insure that persons taking part in the defense of the country would not be regarded as civilians He also asked if the government gov-ernment was aware that many active men over the recruiting age desire to fight in event of an invasion and are prepared to furnish their own arms and equipment if the war office will design a uniform for such a force. Mr. Tennant replied that the war office felt it was the first duty of the navy to prevent a raid "in event of Its taking place." he said, "it is our duty to drive the Germans Ger-mans into the Bee as Fasl ;s we can. and I hope we shall be enabled to do so." In regard to the action of the civil population if an invasion takes place, he pointed out that emergency committees com-mittees had been formed and instructions instruc-tions were being issued to those committees. com-mittees. He thought it was not desirable de-sirable to state at this time what these instructions were The Pall Mall Gazette, referring to the report of "liveliness,'' at Emden says it accords very well with what passed in this country this week "Military movements took place which, of course, we shall not dwell upon in detail ' continued the paper, "but which gave rise to the almost universal belief that the authorities had news of some attempt to be made against us The attitude of the public pub-lic mind was one of interest. It certainly cer-tainly was not one of alarm." oo |