WAR MUST COME WITHIN A FEW YEARS.
At the annual dinner of the Glasgow University Olub of London recently Sir A, Allison m replylog for the army, said It wou'd no doubt bo a good thing for the nation if we could do without either an army or a navy, and perhapg when they got near the millennium they might reach that point ; but looking to the Btate of Europe, and to the fact that never before m the world's history had there been bo many armed and trained men ready to go to war with each other at a moment's notice, ho was afraid they were a long way from that milleDninui The present state of things could not last long. It might end m war m a few years ; and although it might seem & harsh thing to say, be believed that a war would be the beßt thing that could happen, because it would get the state of thinga over, and one party being victorious the others would disarm, and Enropo thereafter would get some rest and peace. While the state of things existed, however, m Europe he could not see how with its great and world-wide interests this country could disarm, They must accept the army and the navy as necessary evils— as the insurance by which we were able to lire m peace and quietness.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1666, 19 September 1887, Page 3
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364WAR MUST COME WITHIN A FEW YEARS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1666, 19 September 1887, Page 3
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