A GHOSTLY ARMY
“Towards the Peace of Nations,” by Mr. Hugh Dalton, M.P., contains the following striking passages:—“ln the Groat. War, the statisticians tell us, ten million soldiers were killed and iwenty million wounded, nine million cliPdren lust their fathers, and five million soldiers’ wives were widowed. . . . Imagine yourself privileged to stand an emperor or a field-marshal, or anlelder statesman to receive at the gates of death the salute of those vanished hosts. Marching in columns of fours they would take 80 days and SO nights to pass you, marching unbrokenly through all the hours of light and darkness and dawn and dusk: and for eight days and nights out. of those 80 it would be dead alone who would be inarching by.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 9
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123A GHOSTLY ARMY Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 9
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