“WAR IS ROTTEN"

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 821, 15 November 1929, Page 9

“WAR IS ROTTEN"

OLD FOES WILL TESTIFY AT LEAGUE MEETING ROMANTIC SECOND MEETING British Official Wireless RUGBY, Wednesday. A former German naval captain and a former officer of the British Navy, who met on board a U-boat in 1917 and agreed that “war is rotten,” will appear together at a meeting in support of the League of Nations Union next Monday at Reading. They are Commander Normal Lewiss and Captain Ernst Hashagen. Commander Lewiss’s decoy-ship was torpedoed by the U-boat, which was commanded by Captain Hashagen. He was picked up by the crew of the submarine, kept on board for 19 days and treated with courtesy and kind- j ness. When tlie submarine reached Heligoland the two officers shook hands, before Commander Lewiss was handed over as a prisoner. They will meet again for the first time since then, when Captain Hashagen reaches London on Friday. Commander Lewiss will entertain him and will introduce him to the naval officers at Pangbourne Naval College. WAR ON CIVILIANS I ; TRENCHES MAY BE EASIEST PLACE GUNS AND POISON-GAS LONDON, Thursday. Dr. Cecil Delisle Burns, lecturer in citizenship, University of Glasgow, addressed a peace meeting today. He said strategists expected tlie next war to be fought between 1935 and 1940. It would be a war against civilians. The trenches, therefore, would possibly be the easiest place. Since 191 S gunnery had become so efficient that gunners could hit accurately as a distance of 17 miles. Britain alone was spending £200,000 a year in poison-gas research.