REAL CASUALTIES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4430, 26 May 1941, Page 2

REAL CASUALTIES

WILL NEVER BE KNOWN. “The toll of dead and wounded in this conflict does not appear in casualty lists. Actually the casualties of this war are beyond computation. We shall never know how many people died of panic, exhaustion and grief in the flight before the German Army that emptied towns and villages from

the Belgian border to the Pyrenees. We shall never know how many prisoners, military and civil, perish every day among the millions starving and freezing in internment camps. There is no count of the suicides, the executions, the lost, the separated families, the people uprooted from their homes and dumped- elsewhere. One shudders to think of how many in England have been blasted from their dwellings, but among their own people their fate is not so hopeless as that of the legions driven from one country after another by bombardment, invasion and terror. There is no casualty list for these war victims.”—Miss Anne O’Hare McCormick, in the “New York Times.”