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…s by mobilizing. Sir Edward Grey spoke for peace, spoke of neutral- ity, in the House of Commons at a moment when thou- sands of British troops were already in Belgian waters, and the fleet, concentrated and ready for action, already held the North Sea. France withdrew her troops from the frontier "so as to avoid any possibility of incidents which might be mis- taken for aggression," while her Algerian and Senegam- bian troops were on the water, half-way to Marseilles. He knew that this time there was no hope of peace. Abdication itself would h…
1915 · PDF PAGE 4
…s, not only of Arab, but of negroid and even negro stock, have been hurled into the line; India has gushed out a venomous river of black troops the des- perate Ghoorka, whose kukri is thrust upwards through the bowels, the Pathan, whose very women scavenge the battlefield to rob, murder, and foully mutilate the dead, the fierce Sikh, the lithe Panjabi, the Bengali even. Against the Boers we Englishmen did not dare em- ploy savage troops. Europe would have risen in arms at the abomination. Today we do it, because all armed Europe is already ei…
1915 · PDF PAGE 5
…o could not see it à priori that the greatest, widest, best, and only impregnable military base is the sea. Today we can bring Russian troops from Vladivostock or Archangel and land them at Ostend, a million at a time, and Germany must be well-served indeed by spies if she knows of the operation in time to guard against it. Is it then so treacherous and aggressive if Germany, threatened by an alliance (hypocritically described as an entente) of