MILITARY SERVICE.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.")
lids,—I have read with great interest your personal article in last week's issue of your estimable journal on the subject of military service. It occurs to me that you might have carried your case even further than you have done when you assume that the risk of invasion need not be, nor has been of late, an actuating influence. If the Germans had been certain in July, 1914, that this country would take a part, and so large a part, in the war, it is quite on the cards that in advance of any declara- tion of war they might have sent in a fleet of submarines and sunk a proportion of our great Fleet assembled in that month at Spithead, and so have brought the invasion of these islands within the region of practicability. The subsequent un- scrupulous acts on the part of Germany during the war clearly prove that she would have had no scruples about taking such a dastardly advantage had she deemed it the wisest course to pursue.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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