WORLD OF STRIFE

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 267, 6 August 1932, Page 11

WORLD OF STRIFE

Guns Silenced, But No Peace' LLOYD GEORGE’S VIEW (By Telegraph.—Press Assa.—Copyright.) (Rec. August 5, 9.18 p.m.). London, August 5. “The Great War is over, but there is no peace,” declared Mr, Lloyd George when addressing 20,000 compatriots of the Welsh National Eisteddfod at Port Talbot. Mr. Lloyd George added that the nations were arming themselves more cleverly and more scientifically than ever before. A thousand million sterling- was being spent annually for a greater calamity and a greater massacre than that which began in 1914. GREAT WAR’S TOLL 18th. Anniversary Reflections BRITAIN’S MILLION DEAD Official Wireless. Rugby, August 4. Eighteen years ago to-day Great Britain went to war. With the unveiling at Thiepval and Arras last week-end of the memorials to one hundred thousand men who lie In unidentifiable graves In those two areas alone was completed the list of battlefield memorials to over one million dead British soldiers. Yet every week the remains of about twenty more are discovered in battle areas of France and Flanders and removed to one or other of 925 war cemeteries tended by the Imperial War Graves Commission. In addition to Britain’s million dead, over two million men were wounded during the war, and among those still suffering from its effects are 6000 who are inmates of special mental hospitals and 30,000 victims of chronic neurasthenia.