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CAN GERMANY INVADE ENGLAND?
| For 246,000 men at 2 tons per man | 492,000 | net |
| For 78,000 horses at 6 tons per horse | 468,000 | ,, |
| Total | 960,000 | ,, |
Nine hundred and sixty thousand tons net plus 50 per cent. = 1,440,000 gross, or 673,334 tons in excess of the amount to be found at any one time in all the German ports.
The following examples of our Admiralty's estimates for over-seas expeditions, quoted by Colonel Furse in his book Military Expeditions Beyond the Seas, p. 209, will show how careful I have been to avoid anything like exaggeration in my own estimates.
First Estimate
"Independently of warlike materials, stores and provisions," sea transport of 260,047 tons would have to be taken up for an English Army Corps which consists of:
