THE SOUDAN.
[Dunodin Citizen] . What is the necessity— what is the meaning — of this loud and sudden uproar about patriotism and fighting m tho Soudan ? General Gordon has fallen at the post of duty, as brave and good men have fallen m every age. Our hearts ache over- a ioss so groat. And the British troops are m an awkward position m a hostile country — but what is the fighting ft> be about? The Mahdi and his desert followers have far more right to live m the country than any number of settlers from New South Wales or elsewhere have to drive them from it 1 What is the object that volunteers propose to themselves m soaking to engage m this Soudanese contest ? It ought to be an object of supreme interest and importance which could lead men of peace to fight, because all war,, even nepessary arid unavoidable war, is a calamity. Defeat is a calamity. ; Victory is almost equally a calamity.. It is all a waste of resources, ingenuity, money, men — victims to tho science of destruction and the art of organised murder. Words of truth and soberness : are likely .to be scouted, just now ; they may perhaps be remembered hereafter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 75, 2 March 1885, Page 3
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203THE SOUDAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 75, 2 March 1885, Page 3
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