Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy — Read

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If once more through ingenuity, courage, and good luck we find the submarine menace "well in hand," and go to sleep again -- if we reach the end of the war without having experienced any sharp starvation, and go our ways to trade, to eat, and forget -- What then? It is about twenty years since the first submarine could navigate -- and about seventeen since flying became practicable. There are a good many years yet before the world, and numberless developments in front of these new accomplishments. Hundreds of miles are going to be what tens are now; thousands of machines will take the place of hundreds.