A TRUE STORY OF THE WAR
We still hear, lifter ten years of peace, harsh stories of our enemy. They no doubt .still remember harsh things of us. But here is a recorded fact that proves to us that the heart of mankind is gentle and good. After the battle of the Somme our regiment put up a wooden cross on the ground it had won in memory of the men who had fallen in winning it.
The Germans afterwards in the war re-took the ground. They found the cross there. They were fighting, and their lives were, at stake. Their country was at stake. But, like true men and courteous, they respected the cross. They painted it and kept it in good repair.
The cross is still there, a sign that even in the hate and fury of war pity and compassion do,.not fade from the hearts of men. It is a symbol of hope, of faith, of the charity between peoples which should never be forgotten.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 19
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168A TRUE STORY OF THE WAR Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 13 April 1929, Page 19
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