THE NEXT WAR
EOUGH ON" CIVILIANS
LONDON, 13th November. Strategists expect the next war b«tween 1935 and 1940, declared Mr. d« Lisle Burns, a citizenship lecturer at Glasgow University, addressing a peace meeting. It would be a war against civilians and thus' the trenches would possibly bo the easiest place. Since 1918 gunnery has become sd efficient as to hit accurately at seventeen miles distance. Bombing aircraft have a. range of 400 miles. Great Britain alone is standing £200,000 annually on the diseoverr of poison gas. ,'
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 11
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86THE NEXT WAR Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 11
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