MODERN WAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 700, 28 November 1933, Page 5

MODERN WAR

(press Assn-

I SIMPLY MASSACRE i an outspoken general condemns armchair patriotism i GAS ABOLISHES CHIVALRY

— By TelegTapli — Copyright).

London, Nov. 26. .Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier, late Inspector-General of the Lithuanian Army and xnilitary adviser to the Lithuanian Government, and who served with distinction in the Great War, being awarded several decorations, and also mentioned in despatches seven times, declared in an interview that "wai- nowadays would be a massacre." The General added: "A general strike should immediately follow a threat of war. If we must suffer let us suffer for peace and justice." He condenmed "armchair and cenotaph patriotism, all of which was founded on rot and loose talk." He declared that women, instead of encouraging men to become tailors' dummies, might diseourage war by pointing to khaki clad men and exciaiming: "What silly asses you look!" Poison gas abolished chivalry, yet the Government had a more dangerous gas even than that which another great conntry possessed. Scientists were nnable to devise piasks to exclude their own gas. War was a put-up job. If they had an Understanding with Gennany and Italy regarding peace with honour, it would be the greatest benefit to Europe. j