GERMANY AND WAR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10780, 31 May 1911, Page 6

GERMANY AND WAR.

Sir Henrv Burdett, the well-known authority on hospital admnustration, speaking recently (says the Hospital), said that he had been much abroad during the past year, and m discussing the question with some very able, public men in Germany, he found that the effect of that-closer attention to the iust needs of the poorer citizens of a irreat country—those of. the workers, who were the backbone of the country —was such as to defeat, l)efore long, the threatened dangers of an Armageddon, which so many thinking men or all countries were coming to dread as tlie ever-increasing thirst and competition for armaments went on. One tleinan, who knew well what lie ,llLta Iking about, and had studied the question, said that although Germany possessed such an enormous fleet am. thou'di she was maintaining probaltly the greatest and the Tiest-i'ound army the world had ever had. yet it was not within the power of the rulers oi Germany. as represented by those responsible for its 'jiovernnienr. to make war at their wilh lie maintained—and it seemeil to be well known in Germany as a fact—that if the army of Germany were to he withdrawn from the country in order to wane war in n foreign P there was enormous danger that the cities of Germany would lie devastated, and mii'ht even' be controlled and occupied by the people who would nothave war if they could possibly avoid it. and who. for political and other reasons, woold take advantage of the absence ~f the troop* t" make their power felt nnrl th,-'r v.-'l'/ i"'cviil_ war should be entered upon withotvt their full concurrence and consent.