7 JANUARY 1928, Page 15

We shall never consent, if only because the doctors of

destruction cannot agree amongst themselves as to the best means -of slaughtering us. We have the tank advocates, the poison-gas professors, the bluff and breezy school (slow as the sails they were trained with) who believe in weight and range of artillery, and look on aeroplanes as complicated toys, the good old cavalry generals, and a raft of others. How, if we take any of their advice, or all of it, shall we be any safer ? Proloceralops andrewsi thought she was safe by -adding defence after defence to her thick hide. Europe is like that dinosaur, who was finally crushed under the weight of her own protection -in some cataclysm of long ago.