ELEMENTS OF WAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16553, 12 October 1921, Page 8

ELEMENTS OF WAR.

SIR lAN HAMILTON’S VIEWS By Telegraph- Pres* Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 12, 12.45 a.m.) LONDON. October 11-Arnold'-s have published Sir lan Hamilton’s ho.ok entitled ‘ ‘ The- Soul and Body of an Army.” It traverses the military organisations in the light.of llie lessons gained from the Avar and says : All the elements of the art of war were never so much in the melting pot as noAY. The fact that Ja«an chose th© German military system was at the moment a gain for Anglo-Saxondom but a loss.to Russia and China. The penetration of the German military ideal into the Far East has vet to bear fruit. We must not- overlook' a principle because by almost a superhuman effort and fin© racial tenacity Ave smashed those avlio espoused it.” BRITAIN AND JAPAN. Referring to the Japanese Alliance, Sir lan Hamilton declares : “ If we cease to be military allies of Japan the Paeific had better be renamed, for nothing av ill then stand between the English-speaking Union and the Russian-Japanese-German counter combine. President Harding may then die happy. He will have gone on© better than Woodrow Wilson.” Sir lan Hamilton pays a glowing tribute to Lord Haldane’s Avork and asserts that the late Avar was won when Lord Haldane stepped into the War Office. He advocates the application of discipline and training in patriotism to boys of school age, “in which Australia and New Zealand are miles ahead of us.”