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Germans will still need to pick up, day by day, all the local food and forage they can lay their hands on.

I emphasise this point because there are men who, in their desire to smooth the way before our German invaders, would have us believe that " they will not be hampered by over-much Artillery or Cavalry, arms difficult to employ in enclosed country,"^[1] and others who go yet farther, and assure us that they will come without horses, and may so confidently reckon on finding horses and provisions in England that, soon after landing, they will be as well horsed as our own Territorial Cavalry^[2]—innocently ignorant of the fact that horses are needed to capture horses and unearth provisions.

No, our alarmists cannot have it both

1. The late Sir E. Collen's article on "The Real Military Problem and its Solutions " in The National Review for April 1911.
2. Speech by Lord Ellenborough in the House of Lords, see The Times, April 4, 1911.