London, Jan. 17.
The second edition of General Sir Ian Hamilton's book Compul-Service, contains notes fur-) ni to Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, by Admiral Sir Arthar Wilson, G.c.B., G.C.V.0., First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, which show that, even if the seagoing fleets were absent, the mobile defence that a force of mosquito craft would make would render impossible an invasion of England by, afore of seventy thousand men, which is the minimum needed for an invasion.
The real danger, Admiral Wilson points out, is not invasion, but the interruption of trade and the destruction of mercantile shipping Exclusive Service.
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