"AN ORGY OF BLOOD."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 254, 20 July 1908, Page 7

"AN ORGY OF BLOOD."

WHAT TO PIP MEAN. CASUALTIES NEARLY A MILLION. THE HUGE COST. (by TEIEGBArH—rKBSS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT,) ( (Kec. July 19, 4.15 p.m.) Berlin) July 18. General Blumo has presented to the German general staff a remarkable report on c what modern war means in the drain of ( blood and treasuro. j .Tho Teport states that in the next war i Germany would put million soldiers into j the ■ field. "This would cost Germany 300 j millions sterling annually, apart from the i indirect financial: and commercial losses, i which would bo far greater. If several European Powers were involved, as seemed ; likely, the cost would bo proportionately greater. , , General Blumo estimates that a European i war of the sanio duration as tho RussoJapanese war would■cause at least 900,000 , casualties. It would become' a veritablo orgy of blood, WAR,AND WORK. '■ / The German Generiil's report will possibly be as good an advertisement for tho evils of his trade as was the' noted book/of' M. do Bloch, tho retired Polish banker, which created such a stir when it was 'published. A writer in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" remarks:—"As M. do Bloch has explained at some length in his monumental treatiso on the 'subject, war has become much more terrible now, than formerly, in consequence of the increase of armaments and the greater perfection of weapons of destruction. Already the nations are groaning under tho burdens of militarism and are for ever diverting energies that might be employed in tho furtherance of , useful productive work to .purposes of an opposite character. Tho interruption of maritime . intercourse, the stagnation of industry and trade, the rise in the price of the necessaries of life, the impossibility of adequately providing for tfie' families of those—call tliem reservists, landwehr, or what you will—who are torli away from tlieir daily toil to servii in the tented field—these are considerations that inay well make us pause before we abandon a peaceful solution, and appeal to brute force. Lastly, there is the moral aspect of tho problem/'. ■ . ' . ,