BRITISH WAR LOAN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2508, 8 July 1915, Page 5

BRITISH WAR LOAN

GUINNESS COMPANY SUBSCRIBES . FIVE MILLIONS. , By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright / • London, July 6: ; The Guinness Company lias subscribed £5,000,000 to the war loan.

"An official German' casualty list is the last word in gruesomeness from the standpoint-of sheer bulk," Btat-es a, gentleman _of neutral nationality who recently visited Germany. "Imagine a periodical tho size of a newspaper of tell or twelve pages crammed from beginning to end with . three closelyj printed; columns of almost endless names of vermisst (missing), vcrwnndot (wounded), and gofallen (killed). They look for all'tho world as if. some diabolical printer had simply torn as many pages from the Berlin city directory and made a slap-dash verlustlisto (casualty list) out of them. Newspapers are not permitted to reproduce the lists in anything approximating complete form. They may only cull names of special interest' to the local' public. The lists are sold . for ■ ono penny each in tho streets like newspapers. the proceeds going to some war relief fund or other. I don't- wonder, in tho presenca of theso Brobdinguagian death notices, tho liko of which tlio world has never known in all its sanguinary history, tbat one of tlio popular lecture attractions in Berlin at tho moment .is a discourse, entitled "There is Life after Death Obviously its intent is to popularise the notion tliafc men who die for the Fatherland on the hut a