The Archive · 1914

Growing Strength of British Army

ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS — London, Dee. 6 — The Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Agricul.

ture, in a speech in London, said that the one army on the Continent which was monthly growing strong-was the British. He confidently believed that early next year we would have a sufficient force on the Continent to turn the tide and weep out of Belgium the enemy's forces that have devastated it.

Germany, before many weeks, might experience an invasion.

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