THE FOG OF WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1582, 28 October 1912, Page 4

THE FOG OF WAR.

~* ■ .HOW HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. A correspondent writes:— "To those of us.who remember the Balkan troubles of 1876-7, it is curious to' see the remarkable manner in which history is repeating itself to-day. Thon, as now.therowOTethesaino kaleidoscope move, ments of the troops of half a dozen different and unfamiliar nationalities, the same strange places with their weird and divefco spellings, the same lack of .reliable and authentio information from a bewildering number of centres of operations. The following, which went the rounds of tho press not a generation ago, might well bo a criticism of tho war news that wo aro receiving to-day:— - "On. Monday morn the. news arrived. There had been ibloody work, < But no one knew who lied the most, Tho Christian or tho Turk, "On Tuesday morn the Christian cWimed A victory for his side; On Wednesday morn, from a' Turkish source, Tho victory was denied. "On Thursday each side swore it had The other put to rout, v And Friday's news the fight confirmed Without tho slightest doubt. "On Saturday 'twas whispered'round The whole affair was small, And Sunday's cablo news declared - There'd been no fight at all.