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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 5, 2 February 1899, Page 31

Simplicity clothes us from head to foot in Christian-like gracefulness It gives an unworldly air to all we do, an astonishing persuasiveness to all we say, and our very silence and inaction have something so celestial about them that they exercise evil and convert souls. The book which moved the Czar to declare himself in favour of a general disarmament is said to have been written by Mr. Bliokh. His contention was that modern armies have grown too big for use', for the Generals %\ho can direct the movements of .">OO,OOO men simultaneously are \t-ry few. The utilization of the full strength of those tnormons armies is impossible, and out of the 17,000,000 men at (lie command of the live Great Powers not more than five or six millions could be u&cd.