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BRITISH EMPIRE AT WAR

silent, has been gigantic. She has kept the seas open to British and neutral shipping; she has transported enormous numbers of troops to various theatres of war with almost negligible loss; she has swept the German mercantile marine (5,500,000 tons) from the face of the seas. No language can adequately describe her work. It can be summed up by saying that she has in simple verity saved the Allies from defeat. France, notwithstanding her superb valour, could not alone have saved her ports from seizure in the autumn of 1914; and if that had taken place, she must of necessity have been reduced in a comparatively short time.

The British Navy has not only

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