THE TRAGEDY OF EUROPE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 147, 18 February 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE TRAGEDY OF EUROPE.

REAPERS AND HARVEST. Hero is a vivid statement of how the tragedy of Europe looks to the leaderwriter of The published in Vancouver, British Coliyubin. " Storming across the IteioS of France and Hinders they came —the reapers of t'ae harvest. "Grimly, heavily, flophdenng through the muddy plains and marshes of Russia they come —the reapers of the harvest. "C'inging to the ridges of the mountains, scaling the cliffs of the Austrian Alps—the sons of Italy come to the reaping of the harvest. "Battering foot by foot their road through the Dardanelles, toiling painfully over the burning sands of :uesopotamia, men from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, France, Britain, Italy—come to the reaping of the harvest. "Gathering ammg their mountain fastnesses, gazing down upon the waters of the Danube, the men of the Balkans wait for the word which will f.ond them forth—reapers of the harvest. " I'or the seed sown fourteen months ago lias ripened. From the marshes of the Pripet to the North Sea, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, through the short bleak days of winter, through the softening winds and rains of spring, through the long hot days of summer, the crop has grown to maturity—and now the autumn js here and the harvest is ready for the reader;. "By the blood of the slaughtered martyr:; of Belgium, by the wrung and tortured soul of France, by the devastated fields and blackened ruins of Poland, by the cholera-stricken villages of Servia, by the red holocaust of Armenia, by the watery grave of the innocents who perished on the Lusitania — the harvest has reached fruition. "The Day' has arrived — ''The reapers are at hand. "And as they come the earth resounds with their tread, and the vaults of heaven echo their cry:— " 'As ye have sown so shall ye reap.' ! L