Europe’s Coming War Cloud
MANY persons profess to see in the great improvements which are being made in weapons of warfare, and in the immense preparations which the nations of the earth are making for war, the very best assurances of peace. But some of the great soldiers of the world do not so regard it. In a recent address in Birmingham, England, Lord Wolseley spoke as follows:— "Those who study the map of Europe at the present moment, and the condition of things in Europe, must feel that there is hanging over us a war cloud greater than any which has hung over Europe before. It means that when it bursts—and burst it will as surely as the sun will rise to-morrow—it means not, as in former days, a contest between two highly trained armies, but a war of extinction, of devastation, between great armed nations whose populations are armed and trained to fight."