THE FINAL WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1921, Page 5

THE FINAL WAR.

REMARKABLE STORY OF A RING. When speaking at Petone on Sunday afternoon at the laying of the foundation stone of the Soldiers’ Memorial, Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., referred to the remarks recently made in the House of Commons by Mr. Marks, when speaking of the return of the Jews to Palestine. Mr. Marks is reported to have stated that, according to Holy Writ, the final war would be fought on the famous battlefield of Armageddon in 1934, and in regard to that war Mj. Wilford told the following story: There is, he said, a soldier in New Zealand—a general—who fought in Palestine during the great war. When there a number of native chiefs came to him and asked him to accept the presentation of a ring. The soldier twice refused the present, but finally accepted it. The ring is a peculiar one, as to shape and curiously-cut stones. On going to London the general took the ring to an expert, who, upon examining it, stated that he calculated it to be 3000 years old. The soldier presented the ring to his wife, and it was brought to New Zealand. Recently the lady was visiting Auckland, and had the ring with her. She is not superstitious, but, hearing of a clairvoyant in that city who had made some somewhat remarkable prognostications, the lady took the ring to him. That individual knew nothing about the ring previously, and could not have known. On taking the trinket in his hand be said it had been picked up near the field of Armageddon, where no battle had been fought since the time of Alexander the Great; was thousands of years old, and that the final war would be fought on the field of Armageddon in 1930, four years before the date mentioned by Mr. Marks in the British House of Commons. On joining her husband again, continued Mr. Wilford, the lady told him what the clairvoyant had said, and he replied that the ring had been picked up on the field of Armageddon, and during the recent war, although battles had been fought all round that field, there had been none on the plain of Esdraeion itself.