ARMY AND AIR
ATTACK ( ON WARFARE
TO FOLLOW NAVAL REDUCTION
United Press Association—By Electrle Teleeraph—Copyright. LONDON, 14th November.' Speaking at tho League of Nations' dinner at the Guildhall, General Smuts said that if a serious reduction- of navies was agreed to in January, the Z al ould °P en t0 nttack tho more difiicult subjects of military and aerial warfare, which constituted tho most serious danger to civilisation. General Smuths said he was doubtful about President Hoover's suggestion of immunity for food ships. As soon ag the hrst shot was fired in war time humanising expedients wore apt to go Uy the board. War was inexpressibly barbarous, andrcould not be effectively humanised. Its utter inhumanity would be its undoing.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 9
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119ARMY AND AIR Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 9
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