JAPANESE GENERAL'S PROPHECY.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5727, 2 October 1914, Page 3

JAPANESE GENERAL'S PROPHECY.

In a Turin paper an Italian military correspondent records a very curious prophecy made in his hearing by General Nogi at the time of the siege of Port Arthur. The General said: "I believe the world will witness two great wars, equally terrible. The first, which will have all Europe for its battle-ground, will settle the Franco-German question and the Anglo-German rivalry. France and Germany will meet in this last [decisive conflict on the Belgian plains, probably near Waterloo, the only spot which will permit of the evolutions of the immense armies which will face each other. At the present time the French and German frontiers are too strongly fortified for either people to force its way through. 1 have little doubt as to the result of this war. France will beat Germany on land, and England will crush Germany at sea. This war will be the last in Europe for many a day, perhaps for ever. The German States will emerge from this war so ex hausted and so terrified that they will have no other object than to form some sort of coalition tjiat may in the future obviate the recurrence of any such catastrophe. "J have predicted two wars. That is the first. The second will set Japan against the United States in the Pacific Ocean, and it will be Japan that will win." (In this ease the prophet's bias is as natural as it is obvious.)