UNIVERSAL SERVICE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10604, 5 November 1910, Page 3

UNIVERSAL SERVICE.

[Br Electric Telegraph—CorYiucirr.] (Per Press Association.; •:;-■:••';_' Received November 4, at 10.10 p.m. ■ London, November 4. Admiral Mahan, in a letter in the Times, declares that the right of mari-' time capture is the principal if not the only strong weapon of offence Britain possesses against the Continent, and adds that to" bring the pressure 'of war to bear on the whole popidation, and not merely on the armies in the field, as the very spirit of modern warfare, is the- most human of all the inevitable inhumanities of war, because it deters Mr and hastens peace.