THE NEXT EUROPEAN WAR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2621, 15 February 1894, Page 3

THE NEXT EUROPEAN WAR.

The Berlin correspondent of the New York Herald writes: The Kaiser, I hear, following a report of Count York von Wartonburg, Military Attacho at St. Petersburg, has just read tie recently published book by Colonel of the Kussian Staff Baikow, the intimate friend of General G-ourko, upon the war of the future. The official Militair Wocheublatt takes up the criticism of the work. It shows what we may expect with the next war with Russia. Baikow professes himself a partisan of not only crushing the opposing army and all appertaining to it, but also all the resources of an adversary's country. He advocates radical destruction, without pity, so as to exercise upon the inhabitants a material and moral pressure. Destruction of every means of communication, of victuals, etc., appears to him the dominating aim of action.

Baikow details the forces which menace the enemy. In the districts of Kiev, Wilna, and Warsaw there are already 13£ divisions of cavalry ready to march at a couple of days' notice. Besides there in the frontier watch, divided into 18 regiments, of frontier cavalry. These know the adjoining country right well, its configuration and its population. They would form the front guard of the first attack.

Baikow admits that his theory of making war would cause vivid protests from the humanitarian point of view, from that of international right, etc. But he is of opinion that no attention should be paid to such protests. He wishes war to the knife, without quarter. One can understand that thiß book, published by an officer in the active Russian aervice, gives food for reflection to the Kaiser and his officers. The Press is already drawing attention to Baikow's work It will be a useful weapon in the hands of the Government,