hes history to its
readers:--

When, one day, Englishmen are not allowed to walk the pavements of
their cities, and their women are for the pleasure of the invaders,
and the offices of the Tiny England newspapers are incinerated by a
furious mob; when foreign military officers proclaim martial law
from the Royal Exchange steps, and when some billions of pounds
have to be raised by taxation--by taxation of the "toiling
millions" as well as others--to pay the invaders out, and the
British Empire consists of England--less Dover, required for a
foreign strategic tunnel--and the Channel Islands--then the ghosts
of certain politicians and publicists will probably call a meeting
for the discussion of the Fourth Dimension.--Leading Article,
_Daily Express_, 8/7/12.

And not merely shall our women fill the harems of the German pashas,
and Englishmen not be allowed to walk upon the pavement (it would be the
German way of solving the traffic problem--near the Bank), but a
"well-known Diplomat" in another paper tells us what else will happen.

If England be vanquished it means the end of all things as far as
she is concerned, and will ring in a new and somewhat terrible era.
Bankrupt, shorn of all power, deserted, as must clearly follow, as
a commercial state, and groaning under a huge indemnity that she
cannot pay and is not intended to be able to pay, what will be the
melancholy end of this great country and her teeming population of
forty-five millions?

... Her shipping trade will be transferred as far as possible from
the English to the German flag. Her banking will be lost, as London
will no longer be the centre of commerce, and efforts will be made
to enable Berlin to take London's place. Her manufactures will
gradually desert her. Failing to obtain payments in due time,
estates will be sequestered and become the property of wealthy
Germans. The indemnity to be demanded is said to be one thousand
millions sterling.

The immediate result of defeat would mean, of course, that
insolvency would take place in a very large number of commercial
businesses, and others would speedily follow. Those who cannot get
away will starve unless large relief funds are forthcoming from,
say, Canada and the United States, for this country, bereft of its
manufactures, will not b