LED NOR FED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10923, 12 November 1913, Page 5

LED NOR FED.

WHY THE TURKS LOST.

WAR WRITER'S VIEWS.

CALLS BULGARS BRUTES.

By TclegTaph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received November 12, 10.30 a.m.) PERTH, November 12.

Mr M. H. Donohue, war correspondent for the London "Chronicle," formerly a Sydney Press man, has arrived on a holiday. He says: " I have a very big, lasting affection and respect for the much-ma-ligned Turk. He is a grand man naturally, and not cruel. On the other hand, the Bulgarian is an unmitigated brute. The Turk is a splendid fighting man. His disasters wore due to the fact that he was neither led nor fed." Mr Donohue is especially emphatic in his declaration that war has not lost its horrors. In the last phase of thia war, events were more horrible than in the first.

Regarding national training, Mr Donohue says that he does not believe in conscription, but believes in Australia's defence metliods.

Results in the Balkans prove that training must bo carried out. The only way to keep peace is to be trained into possessing ability to fly at the throat-of aggressors with a chance of hurting them.