Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-09-10
HORRORS Of WAR
DEPICTED BY ONE
WHO KNOWS THEM
VAST INCREASE IN EFFECTIVE
NESS OF MAN-klLLlNG MILL
TARY ENGINES.

lAHI EN6lNGo.
Some years ago NJ. Bloch, a great
Warsaw banker and political econ
omist, startled the world by the dec
laration that a great war between
European powers was a physical i'm
possibility. says London Tit.Bits. Aug.
ust 15
"Such a war" said M. Bloch, "has
at last become impossible, and those
who are preparing for war and bas-
ing all their schemes of life on the
expectation OF war are Missionaries OF
the worst kind. Science and inven-
tion have made it not merely impos-
sible, but unthinkable."
Without taking quite such an ex-
IRENE view as the famous Russian
apostle Of peace, it is easy to see
that a war between two or more
great European nations, if not actual
ly impossible, would have conse-
quences so terrible that no nation
would ever dare to face them sec
ond time.
In the past, war has been suffici-
emily prodigal in it's squandering of
life and gold. During the past cen
fury alone it reaped harvest of a.
000.000 lives; in one great struggle,
\ that between France and Prussia, the
death roll totaled 100000, and on
three ttlefields-Borodino Moskowa
and Leipzig-more than a quarter OF
a million soldiers were either killed
or wounded The price paid for the
I Franco-German war in gold was
4 e516,000.000 Including Frances in
demnity), and the American civil
war is said TO have sacrificed 100000
lives at a cost of $4,000, 100000.
Such was the price paid for war il
days before the science of deathdeal
ing was really out of it's cradle, ant
its rapid progress during the las
generation has advanced it as fa
from the day of Sedan as Sedan wa
removed from Agincourt.
What strides the science has mad
is proved by the statement of an eS
pert that the artillery of today is a
least 116 times more deadly than tn
batteries which slaughtered thel
thousands at Sedan and Gravelottt
In 1870 schrapnel-fire, for example
only scattered thirty-seyen dealt
dealing missiles. Now it scatters 34(
A bomb weighing about seyent
! pounds forty years ago would hay
burst into forty-two fragments. II
day when it is charged with perox
lene, it breaks up into 1900 pieces
!. 1t is estimated that such bonn
: would effectually destroy all lii
! within range of 200 yards of tn
8 point of explosion.
!. So terrible in its powers of slaugl
; ter is the modern cannon that If
) body of 10000 men advancing to I'll
= attack had to traverse a distance I
I a mile and half under the fire of
! single battery they would be expose
i. to 1.450 rounds before they cou
cross the zone of fire, and the burs
ing OF the shells fired by that batter
would scatter 275.00O bullets (mol
s than twenty-seven for each NAM
: fragments over the mile and ha
across which they would have
march. Such is the perfection viii,
d artillery has attained already, thanl
to the invention of the quick-firil
= guns, to range-fnders and to the u
), OF higher explosives. The mode
o, rife has range of two to thr
~ miles. and such a power of penetr
o. ton that its bullet will easily pa
At through dozen men before it's for
70 is spent. Such, too, is it's speed
~ fight that there is no longer any ne
to sight the gun so as to drop 20
= bullet at particular range. You a
straight at your man and the bull
goes straight to its mark.
Today, too. the soldier can f
twelve times as many shots per m
ute as he was able to do a generate
ago. AS recently as the Russo-Tul
ish war a soldier could only car
h eighty-four cartridges into actio
IL now he can carry roughly four tin
Y this number without adding to
burden.