Evening journal., 1915-02-17
MODERN warfare
FULL OF HORRORS
Destructive Power Much
Greater Than That of
Civil War Guns
FEW GENERALS FALL
IN PRESENT FIGHTING
BY BURTON h. STANDISH,
(Written for the United Press.)

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(Written for the United Press.)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 17-Warfare is
not what is was in the olden days.
More specifically, there is vast diff
ference between the lighting that has
been listed in history under the name
of the Civil War. and the lighting Of
today in Europe, for which the final
name has not yet been found
General l. r. Sherwood, Congress-
man from Ohio. the only member Of
Congress who served in the Civil War
as an officer, has been drawing COM
parison for himself and his conclu-
sions are interesting.
'Hes. indeed, there is a difference" 3"
he said THE destructive power OF
modern arms and armament is proba-
bly, ten times as great as in our Civil
War, which was at the time, the great
est, bloodiest and most destructive
war of modern times. But the ethical
differences are most startling
Our war of over four years dura-
tion was fought on both sides by vol
unteers. With the exception OF the
English, all the great armies of this
European conflict are regular soldiers.
trained to xiii for hire. In The Civil
War the one vital question involved
had been in the arena of fierce con-
tentiOn and debate for a whole decade
preceding the war.
I'm our war every soldier behind a
gun knew what he was fighting for.
in the European war, not a soldier
behind a gun knows what the war is
about, OF what is involved in the con-
ilict
II is conceded that the power of
modern killing machines on land Is
I ten times as destructive of human
life as the man killers of our Civil
( War. And on the sea, the killing
power is probably twenty times as
muTderous. In the signal bate, be-
! tween the Monitor and the Merrimac,
/ in Hampton Roads on March g. 1862,
! few lives were lost; now the subma
I rine. which carries only a crew OF
/ from II to 20 men. sends the heaviest
armOred dreadnought carrying 500
! trained middies TO the bottom OF the
/ sea in twenty minutes
( "In our Civil War, the soldier in the
ranks carried a gun with a killing
range of 500 yards. and according 10
| Casey's infantry tactics he required
six distinct military motions to load
and fire that gun. And he carried In
! his cartridge box on his left hip only
forty rounds of shot And that sol
dier could not pass the mastering Of
icer. without a good strong set of
front teeth to bite the deadly charge
] 4 T..
the European war the infantry mar
behind the gun needs no teeth TO kill
He carries a gun that shoots ten
times, while the old muzzle leading
Springfield rifle of fifty years ago
fred once: and the modern gun carrie:
to kill over one mile. The modern
artillery guns not only carry six times
as far as the guns 7 used to hear in
battle, but the death missiles they
carry are more than three times as
destructive.
Another striking difference be-
tween the two wars is the large num-
Der of generals who were killed in
battle in our war. and the remarkable
absence of any distinguished victims
i'm either the armies in the European
combat. where at least twenty times
" oolOncls and generals are
engaged. Up-tO-date, and on battle
front of over 200 miles in East Prus-
sia and France. ! have heard of only
two generals of the line killed in bat
tie while in a five hour battle al
| Franklin. Tennessee. November 80
1864. on a battle front of only two
and one-half miles. twelve Confeder-
! ate generals were killed or desneratc.
ly wounded.
I'VE read also OF bayonet charges
reported from Paris. Berlin. Petro-
grad and London. almost daily. II
were betting man. | would wager
my January salary, S625, against q
Panama bond that neither in any Rus.
sian or German or French or English
field hospital can ten soldiers be found
afflicted with bayOnet wounds.