NEXT GREAT WAR.
LUDENDORFF'S' PREDICTIONS. LONDON, June 8. Field-Marshal Ludendorfl's recent book, •"The Coming War," in which ho predicts an outbreak of hostilities in May, 1932, unheralded by any formal declaration of war, is criticised by General Sir lan Hamilton. Ludendorff's prophecy regarding' the methods to bo used in tho noxt world war, General Hamilton thinks, completely misses tho point by treating tanks and aeroplanes as mero auxiliaries to huge masses of heavily-armed infantry, who will sink underground, and resume the static warfare of 1914 18. "How," ho asks, "can such masses bo maintained in action by a sido which loses tho air mastery? All tho same, I am glad to find that tho good old English, Scottish and Irish foot-sloggers will go down, as heroes should, with their backn to the wall."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20901, 17 June 1931, Page 9
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133NEXT GREAT WAR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20901, 17 June 1931, Page 9
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