A correspondent of the Morning Post of Wednesday supplies the
following extract from a letter written by General Gordon in 1882 to Mr. James R. Purdy :—
" Every Briton should think of the future of his country and cause each one to insist on the Government passing a measure for compulsory universal military training I So far as England is concerned, she need not, for the next quarter of a century, be under any apprehension of serious difficulties arising with any of her European neighbours, but in 1910 or thereabouts there will have arisen a naval Power which may prove mightier than she, and should she (Germany) gain the supremacy, England wilt become extinct both as a sea and a land Power, and all her dependencies, including India, will fall into Germany's clutches. You may live to see this. I shall not, but when that time comes, remember my words."
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