TO INVADE BRITAIN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16235, 3 April 1917, Page 8

TO INVADE BRITAIN.

\\ A SERIOUS POSSIBILITY:. „ '\ "s'smpSH. ;general'S >yrEWs:-"/' | RAIDS T0 X ASSIST SUBmj&NE*'-' I' « -*i / , ""■ x ' "' s " %• , v -(United,Service.") ' -- , < * LONDON. April 1. General Sir O'Moofo Creagh J writing in, the ','Wejkly Despatch," I discusses the-serious possibility of ,111j vasion or a groat raid in order to assist. J the German's submarine campaign .'by destroying shipping in the pprts, burning foodstuffs and devastating ihe country. He argues tliat before Germany is defeated she will exhaust her lesourccs, including Tier navy, which cannot hope to defeat the Grand' Fleet, even with luck, >*< but might during a rush a number of- iaiders into "the Atlantic. The German Navy onight- secure a stretch of British waters •long enough "to permit the landing of j aiding parties trained to devastate the country.

He states that von Hindenburg has a strategic reserve of a million men, .with which, he may strike for Palais, Verdun, or the Venetian Plain, or under cover of a. great r.aval battle he m'ght send them by a fleet rir transports to England" - in the hene tlhtfr a large number would mate the landing. ' He adds that Von Hinderburg's dospcrfldce's would pay deviJi->h f cks j but considering "our resources m men and railways thf» nlnns of tur defence o ■~n pto-1(i T JinrM lif at -ibcty «ft"i* four hours. A desperate series of such raiding invasions is to be exported, ths enemy endeavouring to create panic, the rnfhvavs and destroy sTrnninir -i* 1 "" 1 fond. Tbp<s« n-Kns siTf* i»Ha : ii +o fnil, nnd thtn, Ge'-manv would b" lion < "l' vv,l v biTikmpt qif resources and would beg for pence.