A Ghostly Army
‘‘Towards the Peace of Nations,” by Air Hugh Dalton, ALP., contains the following striking possages:—‘‘ln the Great War. the statisticians toll us. ten million soldiers were killed and twenty million woundcii, nine million children lost their fathers, and five million soldiers’ wives were widowed. Imagine yourself privilegtyl to stand an emperor or a field-marshal, or an cider statesman, to receive at the gates of death the salute of those vanished hosts. Marching in columns of fours they would take 80 days and 80 nights to pass you, marching unbrokenly through all the hours of light and darkness and dawn and dusk: and for eight days and nights out of those eighty it would be the British dead alone who would be marching by.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 207, 1 September 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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126A Ghostly Army Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 207, 1 September 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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