+--------------------------------------------------+ | | | [Illustration] | | | | =NOTICE.= | | | | =TO ALL GERMAN SUBJECTS RESIDENT | | IN ENGLAND.= | | | | | | WILHELM. | | | | To all OUR LOYAL SUBJECTS, | | GREETING. | | | | We hereby COMMAND and enjoin that all | | persons born within the German Empire, or | | being German subjects, whether liable to | | military service or not, shall join our arms at | | any headquarters of either of our Army Corps | | in England within 24 hours of the date of this | | proclamation. | | | | Any German subject failing to obey this our | | Command will be treated as an enemy. | | | | By the EMPEROR’S Command. | | | | Given at Beccles, Sept. 3rd, 1910. | | | | =VON KRONHELM,= | | Commanding the Imperial German Army in England. | +--------------------------------------------------+ FACSIMILE OF A PROCLAMATION POSTED BY UNKNOWN HANDS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. Every hour the papers were appearing with fresh details of the invasion, for reports were so rapidly coming in from every hand that the Press had difficulty in dealing with them. Hull and Goole were known to be in the hands of the invaders, and Grimsby, where the Mayor had been unable to pay the indemnity demanded, had been sacked. But details were not yet forthcoming. Londoners, however, learnt late that night more authentic news from the invaded zone, of which Beccles was the centre, and it was to the effect that those who had landed at Lowestoft were the IXth German Army Corps, with General von Kronhelm, the Generalissimo of the German Army. This Army Corps, consisting of about 40,000 men, was divided into the 17th Division, commanded by Lieutenant-General Hocker, and the 18th by Lieutenant-General von Rauch. The cavalry was under the command of Major-General von Heyden, and the motor infantry under Colonel Reichardt.