The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . then released. Isolated fromthe mainland of Europe, she had placed hergreatest reliance in her magnificent navy.That this was the wisest policy of thetight little Island, has been detenninedthroughout the war, for Englands navyhas been one of the greatest factors in thechecking of Germany. But Englands preparation on land hasserved as one of the military marvels ofthe age. Her standing army of 150,000 men,the only ones fit for immediate militaryser^ice, was thrown almost to a man intoFrance within the first few
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The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . then released. Isolated fromthe mainland of Europe, she had placed hergreatest reliance in her magnificent navy.That this was the wisest policy of thetight little Island, has been detenninedthroughout the war, for Englands navyhas been one of the greatest factors in thechecking of Germany. But Englands preparation on land hasserved as one of the military marvels ofthe age. Her standing army of 150, 000 men, the only ones fit for immediate militaryser^ice, was thrown almost to a man intoFrance within the first few weeks of thewar. Lord Kitchener, the hero of Khar-toum and considered the foremost militarygenius of the empire, was called to the min-istry of war. In eight months he hadraised Kitcheners mob of three-quar-ters of a million men. This army wasraised entirely by the volunteer system.From overseas, too, poured in the forcesof Englands colonies, another bit of thewriting on the wall that Germany hadignored. She had expected the disintegra-tion of the British Empire, but the answer. General Sir Edmund Hyman Allenby, who com-manded the British forces that won successes in thecampaign against the Turks in Palestine. to this was the thousands upon thousandsfrom Canada and Australia and Eng-lands far East possessions who foughtfor the banner of the empire. Many, too, were the free lances, the adventurersfrom the United States and other neutralnations, who, drawn by the principle of de-mocracy, enlisted in the foreign legions.It was not until months later that Eng-land realized tliat the volunteer systemwould not fulfill the demands made uponher. The labor unions bitterly opposed con-scription. Attempts to put it into forcethreatened great strikes and an economicupheaval. But with the terrible characterof the war which claimed scores of thou-sands in the casualty lists, England wasfinally awakened to the absolute necessityand conscription was put into effect. Thisenabled her to place a