England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend

The wholly unexpected news of the invasion of Bel gium aroused the whole country to realize that war on a scale never known before had come, and, as the firing upon Fort Sumter awakened America, convinced Eng land that she must fight to the death for her liberties, unready as she was - but Mr. Balfour, the First Lord of the Admiralty, says that, since the war began, she has added one million to the tonnage of her navy, and has doub...