PITY GOD, O GIVE US PEACE!
(By Charles J. M'Guirk.) The world's a-tremble with tho treaa Of millions of her fighting men, The bodies of the shrivelled dead Pass into common clay again. And at their doors the women stand With starving babes at shrunken breast, And wail their mourning of the band That perished m the war god's quest. 0 God, Thy people cry ip Thee, Who know'st all the fruits of war. Wilt Thou not hear? Wilt Thou not see' j Or is there punishment m store? [Lord God, Tfiy splendqr shines again Magnificent with earths surcease; Grant mercy on Thy children then, And pity", God, 0 give us Peace! — CJhicago fflrib-qp.
(Special to Herald.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Seaman Thomas Riordan (not Reardon, as cabled), who was a member of the crew of the missing Australian submarine, was a native of Kaikoura, and about 23 years of age. He followed the sea all his life, and was one of the first draft of New Zealand boys on H.M.S. Pioneer. Only two or three months ago he barely escaped death m Sydney harbor through a tug running down and sinking a pinnace of the Pioneer, m which lie and some other seamen were returning to their ship. He was pracI tically the sole support of his widowed mother.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13493, 23 September 1914, Page 3
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219PITY GOD, O GIVE US PEACE! Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13493, 23 September 1914, Page 3
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