VAIN SACRIFICE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 58, 6 September 1926, Page 9

VAIN SACRIFICE

VAST MULTITUDE OF, WAR VICTIMS

NO GOOD TO ANY EXCEPT

AMERICA

LAN HAMILTON'S BITTER WORDS

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 6th September, noon.) LONDON, 6th September. General Sir lan Hamilton bitterly; commented on the state of affairs in Britain in addressing a "Remembrance Day", meeting of soldiers and ex-sol-diers at the Glasgow Cenotaph. Ho said that such an occasion tempted a speaker to pander to the popular belief that the blood of so vast a multitude of war victims was not sacrificed in vain, "but," said he, "the hour has at last struck when we must wrench onr thoughts from romance and sympathy, and face facts. There is no sign from Heaven or in men's hearts that these riven of blood by their agonies purchased an atom of good to anyone, except possibly to the Americans. The whole stored-up capital of our forefathers has left us and found its way into the pockets of a nation, which financed the bloodshed. We are in the position of bees whose . honey has been removed by a trick. "The people but dimly comprehend that the best workers, the farmers, fishermen, miners, engineers, and shipbuilders, are trembling on the brink of the dole. Only hotels, pictures, and bookies seem to thrive from to-day's miseries. May the wisdom arising from vision be given to the people of Scotland. ' How we have the nerve to send delegates on expensive journeys to preach peace in the midst of Switzerland, when we are actually bleeding from the self-inflicted wounds of the coal industry, passes me. We must realise that to have agreed on peace is no sign of weakness and sentimentalism, but Christianity and commonsense.