WAR POSSIBILITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12076, 2 March 1925, Page 6

WAR POSSIBILITIES

The public mind of .the world is every day invited to lose itself in panic. First there is the series of horrible inventions which, if they progress at the present rumoured rate, will very soon he able to destroy each one, not a city but the whole planet. Their value may be estimated by the sequel to the “authentic” story of the experimental bombing of an American battleship, .which was supposed to have' condemned all Battleships to the scrap-heap. In the sequel the Admiral who conducted the experiment said that the one which hit the target did not penetrate the deck. But all these rumours of horroTs ] are unnecessary. There is abundance of determent in the casualties of the Great War. The recent'official publication of the German figures brings the | totals of killed to 6,678,000, and of wounded to 13,263,000, a gross casualty : total of 19,826,000. This appalling holo-j capst of victims does not include the. Russians, assuming these as not less ffcan the Germans—two millions killed, and four and a quarter wounded.)

The casualties of the "Great War reached, there is every reason to believe, twenty-five millions, of whicb more than one-third were deaths on the field. Is it possible that anyone is hankering for a greater peace propaganda of deliverance P