GRUESOME PICTURE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 697, 25 February 1933, Page 1

GRUESOME PICTURE.

Sir lan Hamilton on Next War’s Horrors. LONDON, February 17. “ Unless the Disarmament Conference takes concrete action, no amount of slip-shod idealism is likely to save the world. The next war w'ill not be long in coming if the conference collapses, but it will be over in as many weeks as the Great War lasted years,” said General Sir lan Hamilton, speaking at a conference of the British Legion. “ Huge masses of infantry will never come into contact,” continued Sir lan. “ The whole of the mechanised motordriven forces of either side will meet immediately on sea, land and in the air, Seach rushing to seize advanced bases for aerodromes and oil depots. “ The first encounter will certainly decide the war. The victorious tanks and aeroplanes will then eat up the hostile infantry as easily as half a dozen armoured knights of old ate up a thousand unarmed peasants. Then they will begin to lap up civilians as a cat laps up cream. “Perhaps the worst of all these devils will be the civilian aeroplane laden with chemicals. If any nation begins to make excuses to obviate the inspection and control of civil aviation by the League of Nations we are ‘ for it.’ No nation is going to talk economics while death is probably hanging overhead behind a curtain of clouds.”