NO SENSE OF WAR'S HORROR.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 2

NO SENSE OF WAR'S HORROR.

Mr. Ernest Poole, an American journalist, the author .of a novel, "The Harbour," has just returned from a two months' stay in Germany, and his impressions of the effect of the war .upon the German soldier*are conveyed to tho by a friend :—

"Although himself an ardent pacifist,' he fails to discover any signs of a more pacific sentiment among the German people. He believ.es ±he Amercans Jail to appreciate sufficiently the - ethical effect of the-war on the workers from mines, factories, and workshops. The men have no sense of the horror of the war; they Jiave,-xnost -of them, for the first time intheir lives, "been taken cut of tbo humdrum life and drudgery of the ordinary worker, and made to feel that they are making a sacrifice for an idea. This sentiment of sacrifice permeates the whole nation; even among the women there is no complaint."