SUPREME LESSON OF THE GREATEST WAR

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19314, 15 October 1932, Page 15

SUPREME LESSON OF THE GREATEST WAR

INSPIRING REMINDER BY THE PRINCE OF WALES

Unveiling the magnificent memorial at Thicpvad, to the ?-Mo7 British and verrucas officers and men who have no known grave on the Somme, the Prince of U ales finely voiced the sentiments of common humanity when he said: “These myriads of names carved in stone and printed on almost endless pages must form no mere Book of the Dead if, in the words which in honest faith we hare cut deep and clear , they are to Hive for evermore.' ' They must he, and ' I believe they are. the opening chapter in a new Book of Life —the foundation and guide to a heller civilisation, from which war, with all the horrors which our generation has added to it. shall he banished, and in which national bitterness and hate , selfishness and greed, shall flee abashed before the spirits of the dead. These names, and the names of the even greater host of the dead of Fran c; the names of the dead of other nations irho fought with as and of those who fought against us —all these, so long as we remember litem, shall testify against the past, and- shall call us to a better civilization in whbrh it will be at last realized that the only sire happiness for each individual nation is to be found in the peace and prosperity of the whole world. ”