Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — Sword Deadlier Than Gun. [ARTICLE]

Sword Deadlier Than Gun.

In spite of the long casualty lists of the present wfir; fought with all the fiendish —contrivances of modern science, the destruction of life is not so great in proportion to earlier wars when soldiers fought hand-to-hand. The most deadly of all weapons was the Roman short sword.. Caesar reported that, at the battle he fought near Namur, his soldiers slew 60,000 of the Nervii. There were no wounded" when the weapon was the short eword. As men began to fight at longer range, the lists grew shorter. It is an. axiom of modeqh war that It costs a marksman his own weight In lead to kill one of the enemy.—People's Home Journal.