The Empire Review, Vol. 31
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Excerpt from The Empire Review, Vol. 31: And Journal of British Trade In the fateful first days of August, 1914, amidst many doubts and perplexities, two things were certain, and neither was understood by the Germans. When war broke out, the whole Empire was found solidly united in upholding the national honour, and ready to resist to the end the Prussianising of the world. The Dominions had taken no part in the guarantee of Belgian neutrality, to which Germany was a co-signatory. They did not exist when the treaties were made, but they instantly realised all that was at stake, and every member of the Empire, from the least to the greatest, prepared to give their best in the greatest cause for which we have ever fought. In the second place, the Navy was ready for war. It was short of the vast number of auxiliary craft of all kinds which were quickly found to be essential; but when the Grand Fleet moved to its war stations on July 29 it was perfectly ready to defeat any force that could be brought against it. At the outbreak of no war in our history - not even after the brief peace of Amiens - was the Navy so well able to discharge its vital functions. These two mighty forces were either excluded from the German calculations as being unlikely to be brought into play, or they were discounted. It is not too much to say that they have exercised a dominating influence on the course of events in the past two years. Students of naval war had no doubt of the part the Navy would play in this greatest of conflicts; but I am not sure that the public at home realised that steam and speed had given added strength to the superior naval force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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