A Ghostly Army

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 152, 14 September 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

A Ghostly Army

“Towards the Peace of Nations,” m by Mr Hugh Dalton, M.P., contains the following striking possages:—“ln the Great War. the statisticians tell us, ten million soldiers were killed and twenty million wounded, nine million children lost their fathers, and five mil lion soldiers’ wives were w’idowed. Imagine yourself privileged to stand an emperor or a field-marshal, or an elder statesman, to receive at the gates of death the salute of those vanishiyl hosts. Marching in columns of fours they would take 80 days ami 80 nights to pass you, marching unbrokenlv through all the hours of light and darkness and dawn awl dusk; and for eight days and: nights out of those eighty it would be the British dead alone who would bo marching by.”