The Marlborough Express. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXII, Issue 29, 4 February 1897, Page 2

The Marlborough Express. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING.

Thubsday, February 4, 1897. Vkoount Wolselet Com--I'utube mander •m • chief of the wabfabe. British army, m a speeob reoently delivered at Edinburgh said that m future warfare would be difficult from the faot that Inere would be m the field, not mere armies, but the whole manhood of the nations engaged. The shock would be sudden and tremendous and the effeot so great that no land war fought with regular atmiea oould last long. One of the most hopeful aspects connected with the wars yet to come was that they must be Bhort. After noting the immediate effeot of recent wars m Europe, he said it was curious to note how quickly the military training given to all claeseß by the system of universal servioe solidified German unity, and made a nation of what had been before a mere group of scattered province?, eaoh jealous of the other. But the moßt striking illustration of how this system oould bring together the several Btrands that made up the rope of national life wbb to be found m Italy. It bad oonverted the mariy Italian principalities and states of 50 years ago, eaoh with its peouliar idipsynoraßies, into the consolidated Italy of today, with its army and powerful fleets As a sincere lover of peace, he warned his hearers against ihoße who would have them negleot he arts of war, and who! would prevent hem from making -those preparations for war whioh were the best and most effeotive guarantees of peace.