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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1931.

HORRORS OF THE NEXT WAR

GENERAL SMUTS GRAPHIC PICTURE.

The Necessity to Disarm,

A graphic picture of the horrors of another world war was painted by General Smuts in his "Basil Hicks" address on Disarmament at Sheffield Uni- versity last month.

The address was "founded" by Dr. W. M. Hicks, Emeritus Pro- fessor of Physics at Sheffield 'University, in memory of his san, who was killed in the battle of Loos.

It was the Armed Peace which led to war in 1914, General Smute said. But the significant fact to-day was that with the exception of the disarmed Cen- tral Powers, the Armed Pence still continued. The armaments of the world were greater than

they were in 1914, and, even more so than in 1914, Europe, with the exception of the dis armed powers, was ready for in- stant war.

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human affairs. In the next problem of our civilisation, and grent war, if that is ever allow the final test of all national and ed to occur, science will, like international politics. some angry, outraged deity, go The League and Germany. far to destroy mankind itself. Disarmament was beyond all The next war will be unlike any doubt the greatest and heaviest thing which has been called war task before the League. If the in the past. The time-honoured Disarmament Conference next name of war would not properly venr failed, the whole inter-

national apply to it.

situation which had "It will pay scant attention to been rising since the peace, armies and navies. or to the would receive a act-back. But other paraphernalia of war. It disarmament would not be car- will go straight for the popula- ried with a bound, and it would tions and for the immense urban be foolish to expect such a re- aggregations, which will be its sult of the coming Conference. sure target. It will fight with He believed that a beginning new unheard-of chemical and would be made that a great first biological weapons. It will cover step would be taken which would the fair land and the great cities be continuously followed up with poison and discase, germs, until the spectre of war was fin It will saturate vast areas with a ally laid. deadly atmosphere.

An imperative reason for dis- "There will be no escape, not armament was the obligation even for the statesmen and the created by the peace treaties war-makers, and a pall of death and the Covenant of League. will rest over all. Even now the When disarmament Was im- A. 9 WATSON' & CO., LIMITED.. laboratories of three continents posed upon Germany the Ver are busy with their deadly re-sailles Treaty expressly provided searches. And in due course that it was only the first step in some lunatic or criminal will general scheme of disarma-

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ment, Germany could and might The Hong Kong Dispensary, Dis- "In the World we saw only Escape lay only along the ardu-claim the right to arm herself pensing Department, will be open the beginning of the vast differ-ous path of disarmament, and the once more and decline to con- for dispensing prescriptions from ence which science is making in problem of peace must be the key tinue to sit among her peers in 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 6 p.m.

the League as an inferior. The to 7.30 p.m. question of allowing Germany to rc-arm would raise even more dangerous, and difficult ibauca than the question of general dis- armament.

"The Armed Peace continues in an aggravated form,, and, as long as it continues mankind seems to be murching to some horrible doom. Unless a real measure of disarmament puts an end to the Armed Peace we are making for another cata- clysm which will be infinitely worse than the horrors of the Great War.

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