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BRITISH EMPIRE AT WAR
army which will have to be reckoned with, though it may have been "contemptible" in numbers two years ago.
The only sphere in which Great Britain was prepared in 1914 was at sea. By reason and necessity she is a sea-faring nation. No place in the United Kingdom is a hundred miles from tide-water; and even to the dullest mind it must be clear that without supremacy at sea she must fall a prey to any country possessing that supremacy — for "General Starvation" will always be the most-feared General in a conflict between Great Britain and any first-class
