equipment in the hope of repeating
history, thanks to the command of the sea which gave Britain time to
prepare--by winning the last battle.

Had Britain lost command of the sea early in the war, she would have
been utterly helpless. The Germans could readily have landed a force
that would have taken London in six weeks. Even this would have been
an unnecessary military action. For, with her food supply shut off
by German ships, Britain would have had to throw up her hands and
ask for terms.

The Dominion of Canada, Australasia and South Africa would have
found themselves in the position of isolated nations, dependent for
the time being upon their own resources for defense. Their loyalty
to the British Empire has not been the least wonderful of the many
wonderful results of this war. They have sent legions of volunteers
across the seas to France and Gallipoli to fight beside the British
and the French. As for Hongkong, the Straits Settlements, Ceylon,
India, and all the colonies of the empire, they would have been
Germany's for the occupation. Such is the meaning of sea power. But
the British navy being superior to the German, held Germany in
siege.

THE SECOND SUMMER'S CAMPAIGN

Germany must make the best possible use of her comprehensive
industrial organization and of her preparedness for war and throw
the greatest possible number of men into the fighting line at the
earliest possible moment. She was practically in a race against
time; and time was with the Allies. While they retained command of
the sea the United States and other neutral nations overseas, once
their plants for manufacture were completed, could pour out supplies
of munitions.

Germany's foreign trade was practically at a standstill. From the
port of Hamburg her argosies of manufactures no longer went forth to
the world in return for raw material. Her many ships, from the
enormous passenger steamers to the small tramps which had brought
her tribute with their carrying trade, were idle. She could
manufacture, then, only for home consumption and all her plants that
had been manufacturing for export began producing for her armies.
The energies of the one hundred and twenty-five millions of people,
men, women and children, in Germany and Austria-Hungary were wholly
occupied in making war. Their object must be to push the walls back
as far as they could, and so to punish Russia or France that one or
the other would yield a separate peace. The aim