THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Broken Nature and the Tir.t.r.n
“To the scene of devastation at Ypres came the technicians, the scientists, the agricultural experts, the foresters, the bankers, tile statesmen, the politicians. Weeks passed in council and conference and consultation. Then the collective judgment of t.liis carefully selected group was solemnly pronounced; devastated flanders was beyond hope of redemption. Never again could it become the land of ’lie plough and the harrow, the crop and the flock. Then came man and his shovel. With no word of complaint, with no scientific suggestion or ''evice. with no political shuffling of the dirty old cards, with no mournful pleading for aid. with no saintly protestations to heaven, the men and the women and the children took their shovels in their hands, and went down into this waste, hour by hour, day :>y day, week by week . • To-day the fields of Flanders ore green."—Air C. H. Whittaker, in the “Freeman.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 2
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157THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 2
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