The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-05-02
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NEW MILITARY POSTS.
Action Of the Senate, and the Home
Military Report
CHANCES FOR BRITISH INVASION.
How Foreign Troops Might be Massed
Upon Our Border.
CHANCES FOR BRITISH INVASION.
IN TIME of PEACE PREPARE for WAR
How Duluth, St, Paul, Minneapolis,
Chicago, and Other Large Cities
are Exposed.

w ASHINGTON, May Z.-Some time ago
the house committee on militia made
report, in which the chairman, Mr.. Gut
ting, introduced some statements of a
sensational character, in view Of the
then strained relations existing between
this country and Great Britain over the
Behring sea controversy. Mr.. Cutting
made the remarkable statement that
Great Britain was able to place, within
forty days, an army of 100000 men in
the midst of the great wheat producing
section of this country. He elaborated
this statement with the greatest detail,
showing just where the. British soldiers
would be drawn from, and where they
to strike at Duluth, st. Paul and Min
neapolis, and within easy reach of
Chicago and other large cities. Mr..
Cuttings statements were so remarkable
that part of them are given verbatim.
He said: "Great Britain, if uninter-
rupted, could place within forty days an
army of 100000 men in the midst
of the great wheat producing Sec
tion of our country. She has in India,
according to the latest advices, 72, ,408
English soldiers, and the native Indian
regular army Of los, 900 infantry, p, 700
cavalry, 1000 artillery and l All British
officers. For the service of these she has
there 10, 1856 horses and 318 field guns.
From Calutta to Vancouver via Singa-
pore, steaming at about thirteen knots
an hour and allowing one days stop at
Singapore and Yokohama for coaling,
twenty-eight days is all that is required.
For the rail journey from Vancouver to
Winnipeg, allowing margins for delays,
the time would not exceed eight days,
making in all thirty-six days. At the
end sof which time an army of veteran
troops from India, English troops in
part. and partly native with English
officers, can be moving on Duluth, st.
Paul and Minneapolis" He entered into
detail respecting the dangers of such inva-
sion, and showed how difficult it would
be for this government, under such cir
cumstances, to feed its own troops when
the wheat, fields of Dakota, Minnesota
and Manitoba should be in the hands of
the same nation which now controls the
output of the wheat crop of India. In
regions and the ore beds of the north
west, the entire output of which would
be controlled by an army of occupation
moving from Winnipeg south into the
United States and thus cutting the
Northern Pacific railroad, Great Britain
| would, by means of her ight-draft gun
boats, have control of the great lakes
and thus have an uninterrupted water
communication, except when the ice of
winter prevented, between the left wing
of the army of occupation of the north
west resting at Duluth and the right
wing of the army of the northwest with
its right resting probably on lake Erie.
This army would be composed of the
| troops of the home garrisons in the
united kingdom and of levies from Ber-
muda and Jamaica and all the militia
and volunteers of Canada. But little
was said concerning the matter at the
/ time, but the senate committee has now
acted fayorab1y upon the proposition to
establish.two additional military posts
on the northern frontier, to be determ-
ined by the secretary of war. One Of
them VIII probably be on Lake Champ
lain. The other, it Is expected win be
put somewhere on Puget sound. It is
not the intention of those who have
most strongly favored the project that
extensive fortresses shalt be built, but
merely that the poets shall be at.ayaila-
hle ~; = E tera frs.f,a fav, 1se II,