To helpless civilians watching the performances of rival armies there must often come feeling of despair at the apparent aimlessness Of the ritual of destruction, It Is understand~ fable that guns, rifles, bombs and the like being Intended to work havoc develop a Kind of hypnotic mania which is dificult to correct. At the same time much of the damage done fu thig stricken area seems to have made little contribution to the military advantage of either side and hms certainly added considerably to] the tale of woe and presumably to the bill which. will be ultimately presented through diplomatic channels for liquidation, Without attempting to blame one party more than the other It may be permissible'to eite the instance of a Japanese mill which, first set on fire by Chinese agency, and coming within Japanese military control, was finally' reduced to ashes by Japanese mis alles, Neither destroyer benefits in the slightest degree from this inverse effort at economic ce-operation. Is it not possible for the military mind to devise means for concentrating its destructive enthusiasm on purely military objectives?
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