Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-12-03

men How then. shall Germany get those men landed
on soil in good condition fully equipped and read,
10 conquer us?
First Germany win need lot Of ships The first Ca
madam expedition took 81 transports and 90 warshp
to $4,000 to Englang Forty transports wer,
required bring $4,000 troops from Australia The av
erage number of to a transport was $50 Germany
We shall say being efficient might get 1000 mei
on ship. That makes 100 transports
There far larger numbers Of supply ships Tn,
German army has habit Of fighting more with equip
ment than with 1t has six field guns every 900
men, and has used far more than that in Serbia Tho
regular outfit for the 100000 would be 100000 ri
files, $50 machine guns, 24OOOOOOOO cartridges 200
field guns and 100000 Of 1eldgun ammunition
An official British estimate based on theoretical in
'asion Of England by the Germans in 1905 allowed 20
600 horses to 100000 There would be great guam
titles Of food be transported and supplies Of many
sorts almost beyond reckoning. The nearest Mr.. Raw
son can get to precise estimate Of the total number
Of ships required to bring the expedition is 900
And that, be it noted, is exclusive Of the fighting
ships. According the Canadian precedent Germany
would send 200 warshps with the 100 transports There
is no of telling. however The one certain thing
that Germany any other European power would dare
to send than half its navy across the Atlantic A.
long as it had single enemy left in Europe
Now. those 900 ships required constitute nearly one
half OF all the merchant ships Germany had before the
war 1t is probably more than she will after tn,
war, for time But suppose it represents 50 per
cent of her worldshppng the time of the invasion
First she has to assemble that fleet from the fou
quarters of the world her ports Of Bremen and Ham
burg. Maybe wouldn't know anything about that
not noticing the change of schedules etc Then she
would have to assemble the equipment at those ports
It is unimaginable that she could mobilize the vessels
and materials in less than eleven days It might take
months but let's say eleven days including the loading
To get those 900 ships from Bremen and Hamburg tc
the North Sea and formed in order the transaan
tic off Cuxhaven would take at least nine days
That immense otlla, which could move no faster thar
its sowest member could surely not cross the ocean
covering the 1000 miles from Cuxhaven to Montaul
Point, Long Island in less than 20 days according
expert estimates. That's forty days.
Then comes the landing. The allies have not beer
able to land than 5000 troops day at salonlca
with the facilities of a friendly port, The German ez
petition could hardly do better on hostile coast Thos,
to be anchored a quarter of mile apart if ranged of
Montauk Point in three lines would extend along the
coast for 70 miles Allow 20 days for landing
That makes sixty days altogether the irreducible
minimum from the first obvious mobilization until the
landing accomplished That means two months
arnng. 1t remains for any American of any inteli
gence to figure whether need be scared out OF
our senses at the prospect Of having to meet a hostile
force Of 100000 men Long Island in two months
time. with present small army insufficient mi
litia and absurd post system interfering with mo
bization
And remember have utterly ignored our navy in
these calculations What do you suppose the American
navy would be doing all that time with 800 German
ships leisurely swarming the Atlantic under the
escort Of half the German navy? And what would our
coast defense and submarines be doing while tho
landing in progress?