Continental Armies.
A German military critic has been adding up the grand total of the continental armies, and, after noting that we can form only a vague idea of what is meant by tens of millions, he tries to bring home to his readers in another way the collossal growth of modern armaments. If, he says, we could have all the armies of the continents, on a war footing and drawn up in one big, long procession with their guns, and ammunition, and baggage waggons, the column would be rather more than 24,000 miles long, and, marching day and night, it would take nearly a year to pass a given point. If the taxpayers who have to work for and maintain all of these men, were collected on the biggest prairie in America, and formed in column of fours, it would take them sixty years to march past a given point, so the boy baby in arms who started at the rear, would be a grey headed old man, with a family of children and grand children before be reached where the head of the column had started from.
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Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1898, Page 3
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189Continental Armies. Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1898, Page 3
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