To Repel German 'Invasion.'

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 8, 1912:
Plans for British Army Manoeuvres Are on an Ambitious Scale.
    LONDON, Sept. 7.— The most interesting army manoeuvres ever held in England will begin Monday and continue until Sept. 20. The repulse of a conjectural German invasion will provide the general scheme for the operations, since the manoeuvre area adjoins the eastern coast line. Inspired articles in the newspapers, however, deprecate such a theory. The area covered will be Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertford, Huntington, Bedford, and Cambridge, although the first week's operations will be confined to Norfolk and Cambridge.
    One airship squadron and two aeroplane squadrons will be attached to each army, giving each two airships and a dozen aeroplanes. Major Gen. Samuel Holt Lomax, General commanding the first division at Aldershot, and Major Gen. Henry M. Lawson, in charge of administration at Aldershot, will be in command of the respective armies. The fight will be purely an infantry test.
    In the general orders mounted troops and wagons are prohibited from crossing the golf greens, and all troops are prohibited from entering dwellings, churches, schools, factories, gardens, and orchards.