Chapter 791 Continue to exert force
When the "Courage" exploded, there were no other ships around. If the "Courage" was attacked, it must have been done by a submarine.
During World War I, the German army built more than 300 submarines and sunk 5,708 ships of various types, with a total tonnage of nearly 13 million tons.
The Washington Naval Conference did not reach an agreement on submarines. All countries are developing submarine technology, and current submarines have made significant progress compared with those during World War I.
If Theo's government possesses submarines, the British army's blockade of Theo will completely fail.
Blocking Theo is quite nonsense in itself.
Theo is not the Transvaal surrounded by British colonies, with an area of more than 2 million square kilometers and a coastline of 12,500 kilometers. This is simply an impossible task.
Next to Theo is the Grand Duchy of Yuriev, which is less than 500 kilometers away. A transport plane from the Grand Duchy of Yuriev doesn't even need to refuel.
The British never engage in loss-making deals, and when London realized that it could not force Theo to give up its independence by force, negotiation became the only option.
On March 17, under the witness of Russia, the United States, France, Italy, and Germany, the second negotiation between the United Kingdom and the West Coast government was held in Coconut City.
The day before the negotiations began, the "Sydney Morning Herald" broke the news that the British military's military control of Pas had killed more than 4,000 Pas.
Gordon, who was extremely angry, demanded that the British troops immediately withdraw from Pas, and an investigation team was formed jointly by representatives from various countries to investigate the crimes committed by the British troops in Pas.
Chamberlain's head was as big as a bucket. Now it was not just a matter of Theo's demand for independence. Canberra's active participation further complicated the situation.
During the referendum in Theodore, Canberra only issued a mild statement of opposition and took no substantive action.
After the referendum in Theo, Canberra discovered that the British Empire had weakened to this extent, so Canberra began to make moves.
The only thing about Britain that Canberra misses is the protection of the Royal Navy.
If the Royal Navy has been weakened to the point where it cannot provide protection for Australia, Australia will completely lose its reason to stay in the Commonwealth.
No one wants to have an evil mother-in-law on their head.
The bottom line for London is to give Australia and Canada the same diplomatic autonomy but retain judicial powers.
For Theo, Britain can allow Theo to be independent, but it must allow the British army to evacuate from Pas in an honorable way.
After the British army imposed military control on Pas, contact with the outside world was completely cut off. The outside world still does not know what happened to Pas.
The actual situation in Perth is more serious than what was reported by the Sydney Morning Herald. Once the behavior of the British army in Perth becomes known to the outside world, it will cause an irreparable blow to the image of the United Kingdom.
What worries London most now is whether Theo's independence will trigger a chain reaction.
Although Theo has great potential, its population is too small and its influence is not great.
If India, with a population of 360 million, is influenced by Theo and begins to demand independence, that will be the end of the Commonwealth.
Once it loses India, Britain will completely become a second-rate country.
In January this year, famine broke out in India again, and outsiders estimated that at least one million people died.
Incredibly, the Indians seem to be numb to the frequent outbreaks of famine and have no sense of resistance at all.
That's right, I was half-dead from hunger all day long and had no energy to resist the British colonial rule.
India's upper class is also content with the status quo and has no desire to be independent. This country is completely hopeless.
George sent a telegram to Bobov, encouraging Bobov to continue to bleed the British Empire. Bobov has this intention. If Britain wants to get rid of Theo, I'm afraid it won't be that easy.
In the past few months, more than 10,000 volunteers have arrived in Theo, and Port George already has the ability to counterattack on the basis of defense.
The British are also continuing to increase their troops. The number of British troops stationed in Pas has exceeded 50,000, and the financial burden is getting heavier and heavier.
The British army in Pas had planned to attack Kalgoorlie last month, but London did not agree due to the distance between Pas and Kalgoorlie.
The British army in Pas was attacked from time to time.
If the British army left Pas and entered the wild, they might be completely defeated.
Compared with a group of people who were born to be horse thieves, the field combat capabilities of the British and Indian troops were almost nonexistent.
Compared with the situation in Theo, the national strike held by the British Trades Union Congress earlier this year over miners' wages made London even more distressed.
When the Conservative Party came to power, in order to win workers' votes, they promised to formulate more welfare policies for the British working class after coming to power.
This is the consequence of comparing one another.
The Conservative Party represents the interests of the big aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie and cannot truly protect the interests of the workers. Therefore, this strike is the largest strike in the UK since the end of the world war.
What made British workers angry was that Churchill, who served as Finance Minister in the Conservative cabinet, not only publicly cursed the striking workers as "enemies of Britain", but also suggested using machine guns to suppress the strike.
Churchill's outrageous remarks not only did not scare the workers, but led to more workers joining in, and the scale became larger and larger.
There are still people who are inappropriate at critical moments.
Russia has further added fuel to the fire by deciding to raise the minimum wage following a strike by British miners.
Russia's reason is that the minimum wage standard originally established is no longer in line with Russia's actual situation with the development of Russia's economy, so Russia's salary increase is not targeted at any country.
As the news spread, while the strike intensified in Britain, it also began to spread to France and Germany. Even Prince Karl couldn't help but complain to George, hoping that Russia would not easily use this map gun to carry out indiscriminate attacks.
George was helpless.
Russia was worried that the British strike would spread to Russia, so it took preventive measures in advance. It really had no intention of firing map guns.
Facts have proved that Russia's prevention is very necessary, otherwise Russia will be as chaotic as Britain, France and Germany.
Therefore, Prince Karl should not blame Russia, but should find the reason from himself.
George just pressed his head and asked Karl to reflect.
The strike in London has not yet subsided. Russia once again announced in a high-profile manner that the 1923 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, Canadian Frederic Banting, had accepted the appointment of St. Petersburg University as a professor of medicine at St. Petersburg University.
This is the sixth Nobel laureate to work in Russia in the past two years.
These six Nobel Prize winners are all winners in physics, chemistry, and physiological medicine.
This situation attracted the attention of the British academic community. For discovering insulin, Banting and his assistant Best won the Nobel Prize. Before that, diabetes meant chronic death.
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