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THE LENGTH OF WARS,
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On the 18th at 11.18 sm.—The anti-cyelone
is now central to the north of the Yangtze Valley. The depression to the north of Hokkaido has passed into the Pacifio.
"Pressure Las increased moderately over S.E. China and Formon, and slightly over the China Sea and the Philippines.
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cumbed; Napoleon's later armies, like on Quobed as the Turks to-day on Galli those of Imperial Romo, wore largelyį poli." Eleven daya before the storming composed of drafts from subject people of the Heights of Abraham Wolfe wrote We are most of us deeply interested in and subservient allies, and he made to Pitt: The obstacles we have met
Indeed, with in the operations of the campaign. the probable duration of the war, but others provide his equipment.
it was this necessity which compelled kim are much greater than we had reason to there is no Delphic oracle to respond to to be always extending the frontiers of expect or could foresee; not so much from our inquiries. More than twelve months France until he had trebled its size.
If the number of the enemy (though superior ago Lord Kitchener ventured to express England had adopted conscription into us) as from the natural strength of 1793, she might conceivably have ended the country." To Pitt's colleague he in the House of Lords his conviction that the war in a couple of years; assuredly wrote that his health was the war would be long; and subsequent do would not have held out for twenty-ruined without the consolation of doing two. No other Power was able to offer any considerable service to the State, and events have tended to establish his repu more than an intermittent resistance to without any prospect of it"; while the tation as a military prophet. But, if France. Even Russia was only a war French Governur in his dispatches would Pilate was jesting when he asked what with Napoleon in 1799, 1903-7, and hardly give the British a week longer 1819-15. Conscription is the method by to maintain the siege. There were thuse is truth, and stayed not for an answer,
which nations have raised the stakes in in 1750 as well as in 1915 who said we we need not jest when we ask what is the gamble of war; the play is higher, but were beaten because we had not yet suc length in war, and we should willingly the game is sooner won or funk Con- coadad. Yet Wolfe was not ar incapabl wait for a response. It is a defect intinental Powers have, however, ne option soldier, por Pitt an incompetent Minis- adjectives that they mean little except in the matter; if one adopts conscription ter of War. in comparison; and Lord Kitchener did the others must also, otherwise they will not explain his standard of reference
be knocked out without the chance of when he said that the war would be long, playing a cautions and longer game, Some wars have been very long, and some An island State supreme at sea is in a very short; with which category was happier case; it can, if it likes, put all Lord Kitchener mentally comparing the its men into the field. But if it dors, it present war, when he expressed his mist win in a limited time; an effort that Opinion as to its length-with the six costs four millions, a day cannot last for weeks war between Prussia and Austria in 1880, or with the Hundred Years' War twenty-two years. between England and France? If the former was in his mind, the truth of his
statement was self-evident, for when it was made the war had already lasted more than six weeks. If he was think ing of the Hundred Years War, he was clearly indulging in paradox.
History, however, suggests some limits for the guesswork of vaticination, though they are somewhat clastic, One historian has committed himself to the view that the war will last ten years; another wate last spring that it was more likely to last eight years than eight months; while a third thought a year ago that it would end in the winter of 1915-16. The first was a medievalist, the second was almost a professional pessimist, and the third, impressed by the cause, which shortened war in the nineteenth century, paid too little heed
the "progress" which tends to neutralize their effect. The end of the war would be well in sight but for the growth of medical science and the ex- ample of Florence Nightingale; for be-
We were surprised when the war began; we are surprised that it lasts so long and we shall be surprised when it ends. A few of the wiss (and moro of the wicked) had an inkling that war was ut hand; they were not surprised by its advent, and some may not be surprised when it ceases. But if they know the hour of pene. Hike wise men they will not So for England has, as a rule, been in tell. There is on record a bet made in the long wars of history and out of the April, 1815, after Napoleon's return from short ones. There are, of course, excop- Elba; it was to the effect that by Now tons; some of our naval wars have been Year's Day, 1816, the Allies would have short, like those with the Dutch; and our lost to Napoleon more territory than they interventions in the religious wars of had won. Within two months of the bat, France and Germany were brief, ineffec- Napoleon's only fouting was on board tive and inglorious. But we endured a | H.M.S. Bellerophon. It would be easy. Lord Kitchener, no doubt, had in his hundred years' war with France, and wo to take much more foolish forecasts to mind the length of recent wars; and of fought throughout the twelve years' way day The knowledge of subsequent recent times wars have tended to be
of the Spanish Succession, nine years of events, said Froude, has spulit the writ- shorter than they were, The Austro- war between 1739 and 1748, five years ing of history; and ignorance of the Prussian War of 1866 was an extreme from 1756 to 1781, seven years from 1775 | future is the very stuff of which daily case; but each of the two Balkan ware
to 1788, and twenty-two years from 1793 (and weekly) journalism is thade. Some of 1012-13 was a matter of weeks. So to 1815. The length of our wars may be day, however, a fortuitous forecast of were the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1985 attributed to our national habits of being peace will prove correct, and the author and the Turco Greek War of 1997. These unprepared when they start, sticking to will plame himself on his prophetic soul Balkan conflicts were the wars of the them when we have begun, and economiz- with as much justification as those who little peoples, but the giants were almost ing our effort during their progress, all are proving their prevision of war with as expeditious. The Crimean War, in
of which habits depend upon our com. Germany 1914 by their prophecies of which three great (and one growing) mand of the sea. For, as Bacon remarks, war with Russia in 1901 and with France European Powers were involved, was a
thus much is certain, that he that con at the time of Fashoda. One prophesies mnaster of little more than a year; ten mands the sea is at great liberty, and not according to knowledge, but accord- weeks sufficed for the War of Italian may take as much and as little of the ing to temperament. Liberation in 1650; and the Franco-Prus-war as he will. Whereas those that be sian War was practically decided in the strongest by land are many times, never- month between Saarbruck on August 2theless, in great straits." and Sedan on September 2nd, although Prussia, on the other hand, has always Paris stood out till the end of January. preferred a policy short wars and Other wars of the last half-century were quick returns; and, for a nation which hardly less brief the world seemed beat believes in the virtue of war, the periods on showing that there was, after all, of her indulgence, have been remarkably norm for the duration, of wars, and brief, Her main anxiety during the that it was about a year or eighteen Thirty Years War was to keep aloof months. Those were the limits of the and, although the Great Elector, fought multitudinous wars of 1818-9, of the more than one war, none of them lasted Russo-Turkish War
of 1877-8, of the three years. The father of Frederick the Chino-Japanese War of 1804, of the Great, fought but une inglorious cam- Spanish-American War of 1898, of the
paign daring a reign of twenty-seven Busso-Japanese War of 1904-5, and of the years; and his more famous son, who pro- Turco-Italian War of 1011-12. The Boer voked the War of the Austrian Succes War of 1899-1902 ran for two years and gion by: seizing Silesia in 1740, was the first a half but there was some justification to escape its toils. He made a treaty for the Lord Chancellor who described its with Austria in October, 1741, broke it later phases as a sort of war." Of that November, made peace again in 1742, sort was much of the fighting in the re-entered the war in 1744, and abandon Greek War of Liberation, which nomined it in 1745. Be fought, it is true, for ally lasted from 1521 to 1827 and can be seven years between 1750 and 1763, but easily explained as an exception to the it was through no choice of his that Prus normal brevity of nineteenth-century sin then waged the longest war in which
she was ever involved; it was only Eng-un war. The greatest of all the wars between land and some fortunate Russian acci 1815 and 1914 does not, however, conform dents that saved her from total destruc to the nineteenth-century rule of brevity. |tion. For the rest of his long reign The American Civil War lasted for four Frederick remained at almost unbroken years; and we should guess that between peace. The same festures characterized it and the other Lord Kitchener would Prussian action during the Revolution draw big line of distinction between aary and Napoleonic period; one of the The way will be further prolonged by way that is long and a war that is short, first to challenge France by force of arms, the dificulty of making peace. It cannot If we had to interpret his meaning in Prussia was also the first to make peace be ended, like normal wars between terus more precise than the bare state- three years later, in 1705; and for ten pation and nation, by a mere transfer of ment that the war would be long, we years she watched, as a careless spectator, territory or payinent of an indemnity. should infer his opinion to be that the the growth of Napoleon's power. She For this is Europe's civil war, and civil war would be long because its duration even stood aside, bribed by the offer of wars are long. The American Civil War will approach nearer to that of the Ame- Hanover, while Austerlitz was fought, was the longest great war since 1815, and rican Civil War then to that of the dozen and met with a richly-deserved retribu- the causes which made it an exception to other wars of the century of which sol. tion at Jena and Averstadt in 1806. For the rule of brevity operate in the present diers have some recollection or know six years she groaned under Napoleon's conflict. It is not merely a doctrine in ledge. The war, in his opinion, is likely hool, and she sent her troops to assist in arms, as Burke described the French to come nearer to four years than to one
the ruin of Russia. The disaster of Revolution, that we are fighting, but the in duration; and we might hazard the Moscow hardly gave her courage to rise.) doctrine of arms, the creed of Treitschke guess that the three years terin fixed for against her master, and her Government and Bernburdi that the arbitrament of enlistment expressed his interpretation was jockeyed into independent ection by war is not barbaroin, but the climax of of a long war." His prophecy would Colonel York at Tauroggen. The War of political science; and that is not a cause still hold good if the war were brought Liberation was over in fifteen months with which peace can be made. It has to to an end in the autumn of 1916, for by but even that brief period was longer be crushed, or its adherents converted ; that the it will have been longer than than any other war which Prunia fought and the alternatives are convertible terus. any great war in Europe since the fall of in the nineteenth century.
for argument fails to persuade the Napoleon.
It was in consonance with her past believer in force. But belief in force is Such a duration would not make it that Prussia laid her plans in 1914 for aa feeble creed, if a creed at all; it evokes no loyalty and crumbles to dust in time long, in the eyes of the student of his war that should be brief. It is in con. tory to him, if it lasted four years, it
sonance with ours that we should be sur- of trouble. Even a German does not would still be short, for the brevity of prised by the advent of war and only believe in war for the sake of war, but war is but a modern phenomenon. Even by slow degrees work up to the requis te only because he thinks war pays; and his the nineteenth century began with nearly as a nation prepare for aggressive war
standard of effort for succesa. We do not zeal for the way. will speedily cool when fourteen years of a war which had al- because, unlike the Prussians, we do not others pay his colossal and rapidly once he is convinced that he cannot make ready lasted for sight. The preceding century, which closed with the year of regard war as legitimate means for push mounting bill. It is safer to say that the Marengo and Hohenlinden and the cap-
ing our national business; and it never war will end with a crash in Germany ture of Malta, had opened with entered our heads that defence might than to predict the date.-Time Literary twelve years war of the Spanish Suedemand the dispatch of two million Supplement.
But the lack of cession, and during its course had wit- troops across the sea. nessed the eight years' war of the Aus bad thing. He is a foolish optimist who precise calculation is not altogether a
wary.
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trian Succession, the seven years war
wween them our doctors and aursis enable some sixty per cent. of the wounded to return to the firing line. The war would also have ended ere now but for the increased efficiency, of human production, which enables one man to create enough sustenance for two, and thus makes it possible for half mankind to concentrate Unless man's control of his natural instincts keeps, better pace with his growing command of material forces, there might come time when the majority would be permanently engaged in war while the minority provided tha means.
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The joints and muscles of people suffer-
for the existence of Prussia and of the thinks that a war can be won by a definite ABOUT YOUR RHEUMATISM. British Empire, and the seven years' war
number of troops or in any given time; for American Independence.
for, in the words which Thucydides puts In both the sixteenth and the seventeenth
in the mouth of the Corinthian envoya ing from Rheumatism and Lumbago aro cen-
to Sparta, War, least of all things, pro- like the hinges of an old neglected gate. turies there were more years of war than of peace, and some of the wars were of ceeds according to programme" He is When the gate is being opened the hinges portentous duration,
was the sane optimist who deduces front Eglish show their bad condition by creaking and There
history the conviction that, being per refusing to swing easily because they ara Thirty Years War of Religion in Gersuaded of the justice of our cause, we clogged with rust. When the Rheumatic- many, and the French Wars of Religion shall make the effort required for success, stricken joints and musclosure moved they were intermittent for a similar period, however great it may be and however work only with difficulty and pain while the Dutch War of Independence
because they are clogged with poisonous deposits of uric acid.
lasted, save for the Twelvo Years Truce, long it may last. from 1568 to 1648. Back in the four-be, compared with our wars in the past, Meanwhile, however brief the yar may teenth and fifteenth centuries there was fought the Hundred Years' War between the present will seem to be intolerably England and France; and one need not tedious, partly because we are accustomed be an optimist to think that the present to live at a faster pace than our slower war will be short compared with that Distance is foreshortened in time as well will the Rheumatism or Lumbago remain forbears, and partly because we forget. century of conflict.
This poison is carried to the joints and muscles by impure blood. To find reliek and cure it is absolutely necessary to cleanse and enrich the blood, for so long as the blood is poor and poisoned so long
as in space: and, as we look back on then your system, growing more and more Wars have grown shorter because of victorious peaks in our history, we lose severe as time goes on. their sharpness. They might still last sight of the intervening valleys of
By their rapid purifying yet tonic for generations if they were still, as they despcad. We remember Horace Wal-action on the blood, by making new, rich. were in the Middle Ages, little more than pole's merry quip in 1759: We red blood at every dose, Dr. Willians the summer outings of the landed gentry are forced to ask every morning what Pink Pills have cured more causes of and their retainers. They continued to victory there is, for fear of missing one"; Rheumatism (even in its worse and most be lengthy so long, as armies were small and Wellington's Peninsular War looks chronic forms) and of Lumbago than of and consisted of professional soldiers. to our backward gaze like a glorious any other maladies excepting Anemia. It was conscription, introduced during pageant leading on from Talavera to For Anemia-bloodlessness--they are the the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, Balamanca, from Salamanca to Victoria, natural remedy, as has been proved by that abridged the earlier wars of gen- and thence to the crowning mercy at their numberless curva in all parts of the erations into the nineteenth-century wars Waterloo. But we fail to realize the World, of weeks and months. For armies must years over which the victories were Let Dr. Williams Pink Pills begin be fed and clothed, and equipped with spread, or the disappointments and their work of dispelling your munitions, even when they are unpaid; defeats which interrupted processional Rheumatism, of purifying and building and the greater the proportion of citizens glory. Wellington had to retreat almost up your blood NOW. Obtainable from a nation sends to fight the shorter the as often as he advanced; in the winter medicine vendors everywhere, and the time it can maintain them in the field. of 1812 the French must have seemed as Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 98, Szechuen France under Napoleon appears to be an firmly established in Spain as the Ger Road, Shanghai, 1 bottle for $1.50 (3 exception, but it is so only on the surface.mang appear to be in Belgium, and in bottles 88) post free. By herself France would soon have su August, 1759, to be as imprégnably based
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