Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-26
ENGLAND INVADED.

AS result OF recent mlilWfN ma
neuvers England has been conquered
By an army supposed to have come over
from Ireland. The war lasted only
little over two days, and il was watched
with absorbing interest By foreign mill
tary attaches. as well as by English
commanders.
General Arthur Paget led the IN
yasion Colonel scott-Ker commanded
the defending forces. The war" says
a dispatch was hardly begun before the
Irish army forced the British COM
mander to eyacuate his position on
South Downs and fall back on the hills
behind him. General Paget had distri-
buted his men unknown 10 the British
after many hours spent in crawling and
creeping over a difficult country, and
placed them In position for great
overwhelming rush upon the defenders.
UntI they broke into view hardly a
round OF ammunition had been fired.
South Downs confronted them and their
scouts reported that the British COM
mander had detached a division aud a
cavalry brigade with heavy guns and
howitzeTs 10 check their advance. but
General Paget massed strong division
OF Infantry, artillery and other troops
In long line and launched them
against the hills on which the British
guns were In position. The British were
completely outnumbered and Colonel
seott-Ker was forced to retire.
The account goes on TO say that the
defenders fell back on Chilsroye Hill.
where they hoped to repel the invaders.
The latter made their appearance on
the dawn OF the second day. "on came
line after line, relentless as fate. In
vain the guns stormed at them with
shot and she'll in vain the rifles poured
out streams Of seeming lead. Nothing
could stop the advance which General
Paget had so well ordered and deter
mined"
And this. II is 10 be presumed, was
sl arranged for the purpose OF giving
the British the impression that
England would be in danger OF
losing It's independence. should a
foreign army chose to cross the
Channel with hostile intentions. 1t
was, no doubt, spectacle arranged In
the interest OF militarlsm that Is con-
tinually agitatIng for the enlargement
OF the army and compulsory military
service. A war drama staged for the
purpose Of demonstrating Great Brl.
tain's strength In a defense against
foreign foes, would have had a different
denouement.
The British people should take that
kind Of ocular demonstrations at their
worth. In the first place, no foreign foe
could land A considerable force in Eng
land. as long as the powerful British
feet guards the coasts In the second
place, such force would very quickly
meet with resistance from an entire
people defending their homes. and not
merely from few regular soldiers. To
suppose that England can be conquered
In reality, as in a play-war is prepos-
ferrous. Great Britain is about the only
European nation that has not fallen
down 10 worship the Idol that Bis
marcks blood-and-lron policy forced
upon the world. The British people who
have always had the foremost place in !
the ranks Of the nations should con-
tinue to hold out against the pressure
to retrograde. For the day Of the trl.
umph OF war lords cannot last much
longer Peace must prevail. II is too
late in the day TO force upon free peo-
pie the chains under which so many
nations groan, and which they are try
ing to break