CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4403, 27 April 1909, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

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(To the Editor.) PIR, —Having in previous letters in your paper opened up the undoubtedly coming conflict between two of the most powerful nations at the present time, I should like to place before your readers a few of my concepiious of the state mental and warlike of t e two combatants. Not many yeais back Great Britain gave a display in the towns of her resources as a naval power, and it was concluded she had enough then afloat to ensure her supremacy on the sea for the next fifty years, and of course they began undoubtedly to think what their own position was. The Germans of course could calculate that only one half of that total could easily blockade their very limited coastline, so cooped up their trained millions. About that time they began to seriously prepare for defence incase Great Britain looked their way. No sooner did they commence to construct warships of most effective type. Then pessimists in Great Britain took aldrm, in that Germany purposed possessing a reliable fleet of warships, as well as impregnable millions of men. That class of men, by constantly drawing attention to the above particular has altogether destroyed the confidence before felt, while in its place has sprung up a state of feeling never before evident amongst British statesmen, a feeling of vagueness and funkiness as to their condition to meet the enemy. Their own Premier intimating it is beyond their control, by speaking of it as a coming whirlwind of slaughter, no directing or controlling influence over it, their opponents will posses the genius and oversight of the Great Duke of Wellington The British will enter into it like a lot of gaboos. If those in authority in Great Britain oan only regain confidence and possession of the racial ability to direct war, Great Bri'.ian is safe enough, and if they do not the result will be very doubtful. While more ships and more men will only mean greater slaughter and finish.—l am, etc., H. J. Hawkins.