IF GERMANY HAD WAITED.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 179, 2 June 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

IF GERMANY HAD WAITED.

Lord Haldane, in his found.iM •;. o:a tion recently at tho University ..Lop. don I nion Society, said tin: pruhabl.. in the manufacture of groat guns aiul the preparation of extr.. munitions, tho •u tual work of organising for war was done in Germany mainly since the bcninninu of TM3, with the aid of tho I?r»iit lew of money th.m made. r "Hut i-'lie was organised long before that in other ways," he stated. She bad turned ber universities and technical sehoo's for years past to the duty of assisting tb.< State to develop its resources iii every direction. Had the w,\r broken out ten years Inter, and tk< people of other counti car Moss. a.s we shewed ev?ry sign of dftinc the position might-have l>een much worse. On th.> whole, Vlhink it fortunate for us that Germany became rnirvitient. . ■'We are still in a sanation of grave national peril, and should we emerge sccur.lv from it we shall still have another of a different kind to encounter**