Category: History - British

Britain's Deadly Peril: Are We Told the Truth?

The following pages--written partly as a sequel to my book "German Spies in England," which has met with such wide popular favour--are, I desire to assure the reader, inspired solely by a stern spirit of patriotism.

Chapters

1. CHAPTER XI

The following pages--written partly as a sequel to my book "German Spies in England," which has met with such wide popular favour--are, I desire to assure the reader, inspired s...

2. CHAPTER I

Has Britain, in the course of her long history, ever been prepared for a great war? I do not believe she has; she certainly was not ready last August, when the Kaiser launched h...

3. CHAPTER II

No phenomenon of the present serious situation is more remarkable, or of more urgent and vital concern to the nation, than the amazing rise in food prices which we have witnesse...

4. CHAPTER III

The vast issues raised by the war make it a matter of most imperative necessity that Great Britain and her Allies shall put forward, at the earliest possible moment, the greates...

5. CHAPTER IV

Amateur and expert alike argue on a thousand disputed points of tactics, of strategy, and of policy: it has always been so: probably it will be so for ever. But the censorship i...

6. CHAPTER V

It is one of the curses of our Parliamentary system that every piece of criticism is immediately ascribed to either party or personal motives, and politicians whose conduct or m...

7. CHAPTER VI

Notwithstanding all that has been written and said upon this most serious question, Ministers are still content to pursue a shuttlecock policy, in which there is very little sat...

8. CHAPTER VII

As showing the trend of public opinion regarding the spy-peril, I may perhaps be permitted to here give a few examples taken haphazard from the huge mass of correspondence with...

9. CHAPTER VIII

Here, in England, opinion may be roughly divided into two schools. It is understood generally that the naval authorities assert that the position of our Fleet is such that even...

10. CHAPTER IX

Of our military measures, pure and simple, I shall say nothing except that it is the bounden duty of every Briton to place implicit reliance upon Lord Kitchener and the military...

11. CHAPTER X

Ignorance of the real truth about the war--an ignorance purposely imposed upon us by official red-tape--is, I am convinced, the gravest peril by which our beloved country is fac...

12. CHAPTER XI

We have heard a good deal about "Business as usual": it would be well if we heard a little more of the companion saw--"Do it now." For if this campaign, for good or ill, is to f...