THE DEAD WHO LIVE FOR EVER

Otago Witness, Issue 3332, 23 January 1918, Page 43

THE DEAD WHO LIVE FOR EVER

Here is a tribute paid by the Prime Minister (Mr Lloyd George) to those who have died in the war:— "There are hundreds of thousands of sorrowing men and women in this land on account of the war. Their anguish is too deep to. be expressed or to be comforted by words, but, judging the multitudes whom I know not by those I do know, there is not a single one of them who would recall the .valiant dead to life at the price of their country's dishonour. The example of these brave men who have fallen has enriched the life and exalted the purpose of all. You cannot have four millions of men in every land who voluntarily sacrifice everything the world can offer them in obedience to a higher call without ennobling the country from which they sprang. "The fallen, whilst they "have illumined with a fresh lustre tho glory of their native land, have touched with a new dignity the household which they left for the battlefield. There will be millions who will .come back and live to tell children now unborn how a generation before in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales in the ends of the earth, the men of our race were willing to leave ease and comfort, to face -privation, torture, and death, to win protection for the weak and justice for the oppressed. " There are hundreds of thousands who will never come back. For them there will be for ages to come sacred memories in a myriad of homes of brave, chivalrous men who gave up their young lives for justice, for right, for freedom in peril. "This resolution means that the greatest Empire on earth through this House thanks the living for the readiness with which they supported its behest. It also means that this great Empire, through this House, enters each home of the herolo dead, grasps the bereaved by tho hand, and says: The Empire owes you gratitude for your share of the sacrifice as well as for theirs, partakes in your pride for their valour and in your grief for their loss.-"