"OUR NATURAL ENEMY."

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 July 1908, Page 1

"OUR NATURAL ENEMY."

DANGER OF GERMAN INVASION. General Baden-Pa well, addressing the officers and non-commissioned officers of the Territorial Army at Newcastle recently, said that Britain was in danger of invasion from Germany which was now our natural enemy as we stopped her colonial expansion. Germany was in the same position to us as Rome was to ancient Carthago At Hamburg, which was only four hundred miles from Newcastle, there was enough shipping to embark 120, 000 men in thirty hours. Even the fleet would not avail, for the German Navy was strong enough to block tin. Straits of Dover. The Army could do nothing lo meet this invasion unless well trained, for a commanding officer could not adopt ordinary methods of strategy unless he knew what his men could do. The Boers were good marksmen-, but some thing else was needed. To be useful, the Territorialists must have organisation, discipline of the type shown when the Birkenhead went down, and knowledge of tactics and strategy. In other words, they must have courage, cunning, and com mon sense, for the latter was all there was in tactics and strategy.