THE MORAL OF THE GREAT DAYS"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2652, 24 December 1915, Page 3

THE MORAL OF THE GREAT DAYS"

A few days before being struck by < shell in the chest in the recent grea attack, a young French officer wrot' to his mother as follows : — ,• "Certainly, wetamst wish for the end of the war; but as long as it goes on wo must go through with it with resignation and without giving way. Here where we are our lives arc demanded of ns, and all ought to bo ready to givo them. The awful and happy day is near when we. shall mako. the groat attack. There will be many to fall, but: what does it matter if others are spared and succeed in mounting the mounds: over which tho flag of victory will bo planted and fly? What does it matter so long as the enemy shall bo driven out of France? Glory to tlioso who shall fall in the attempt, glory to those who shall achieve it: and for that, mother dear, I would willingly give twenty years of my life. Whilst hoping that God will not impose this sacrifico on mo, I join heartily in the prayers you say for our safety (ms father is a lieutenant in Alsace). Be sure that whatever happens on tho day of the great battle I shall bo ready for it as for a great festival: with soul whito and pure, the moral of the great days."