MR CARNEGIE AND INVASION.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14667, 16 May 1913, Page 4

MR CARNEGIE AND INVASION.

/O THE EMTOn OF "THE paUSS. ,- Gtb r ,',Tl oUr .u lead , ins articl * of MayOlli under the above title scarce!V "trTnrhV 0 Mr Carnceief oTSJ snoopf, - (■" cab,ed summary of a yon hi at - the I>ea «» Concrcss. si on MV g C that m , s l>™Wn S of fnvasho i, Vnl? ?rncg !° tloes not know what ne is talking about ~,;;'2 C Cnrnepie fo task for suggesting that the United States Halt a. million men. The American regular army is, as you say, about Ji°htr 'o"unite f ] tl \ C : P°P«StioS of linn, ru Mat r, ls "bout ninotv milfe< J I T I lnst , or - v of "k United ■ tewtos has shown that in Pn emergency they can aln-avs raKe a lf tho being volunteers, can. with very little ; training, hold their own a e .St air troops m the world. In thY War ff Independence tho Yankee farmers ami tradesmen were called upon to face tho trained veterans of Hanover and I riinswick. besides tho Uower of Inhsh army. llj stol . v record , nell they aimnttod themselves. More recently the I nited States put into 3 S field against bpain 312.000 1 men. most ot uhom wero raw volunteers. Thc-so also proved more than a nmch fo- the conscript arm.es o f Spain. J n fact, all history, ancient and modern, goes to show that a few weeks' active V vice is worth years of parade ground drill nnd show warfare »i,?,!m I]arm1 ]armi ** f ,"'cnds" < a ,nong whom should be ranked the gemlenTan who demands tho inrroase of tho United SUites army to 900.000 men) always :>pj.oar to assume that an invading army ol half a million can bo dropped down unexpectedly in any part of tlio world, lfio nation to be attacked is to have no warning. The Americans apparently aro to wake up soma ujorning to and naif v inilliou Japaneso in possesMou of the P.'tcihc coast. Marvellous Japanese! California, the Philippines, British Columbia, Australia, and New Zealand ! All aro to bo gobbled up s=omo (Jark night by those wonderful little brown men. Yet, how pitiful is tlio reol truth! Japan, as tho result of her war with Kussia. which ended ei-ht years ago, is to-day almost bankrupt, laxed to an incredible extent, with a (.Tovi-rmiient expenditure esceediny tho total value of her exports, wich h«»r nidustnal population seething with discontent, sho lias been oblipxl to abandon tho iniul raco for armaments and to devote herself to retrenchment. Yet J , f l pa r ? '?, used b - v f DO military party iv all I'acitic countries as o 'bogey to lnghten tho people iuto further" warlike; preparations. •To return to tho United States JM-om Japan to California is a distance of over five thousand miles To transport even 100,000 men that distance would require a very larpe number of transports. Tho collecting of transports could not bo done in secret, and tho United States would havo plenty of warning before tho fleet ot transports sat sail. They would then take a fortnight to reach their destination—by which timo California alono could muster up enough men to deal with them.—Y r ours etc C. MORGAN 'WILLIAMS. Ohoka, May 7th. f\Ve havo had to abbreviato our correspondent's over-long letter.—Ed Tho Press. "J