MANHOOD v. MANHOOD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 199, 11 January 1913, Page 1 (Supplement)

MANHOOD v. MANHOOD

WHAT BRITAIN MAY LEARN FROM war. A striking comparison with regard to national defence was made, liv liri"adierOaeral Mends, who districted "badges to the Saddleworlh (Yorks) detachment 11! (lie National Reserve. "Future wars will ncit he fought by armies." he said; it will be one'armed nation against another. "In our own wars with France at the beginning of the last century it was so many thousand men against so many thousand men: in Ihe future, so far a's Europe is concerned, it will be every man of one country against every .mail of another. It will be manhood against manhood.

"I will give you an example, (iulgaria. now at, war with Turkey, has a population of only t.2(ll).(ll)0. against, :i.!)(JI).()0!l in Yorkshire. )( difference of only :io<>.0011. and yet Bulgaria has been able to send into the Held -l(ii).i)f)i) fully trained and equipped men who have' met the Of toman troops, first-class fighting men. and so far as we hear have given them a wry serious defeat.

'■Those men are not picked men. Thev represent the whole nation, and arc ail object-loon to this country.

"Here We IcaVC it I,) il !W men to do the country's work. We do not see that it is;i duly for every man to hr able to defend his womenfolk and his children.