THE DEAD WHO LIVE FOR EVER

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 349, 1 February 1918, Page 2

THE DEAD WHO LIVE FOR EVER

Here is the tribute paid by Mr Lloyd George to those who have died in the War " There are hundreds of thousands of sorrowing men and women in this land on account of the war. Their anguish is too deep to be expressed or to be comforted by words, but, judging the multitudes whom I know not by those whom I do know, there is not a single one of them who would recall the valiant dead to life at the price of their country's dishonour. The example of these brave men who have fallen has enriched the life and exalted the purpose of all. You cannot have 4,000,000 of men in any land who voluntarily sacrifice everything to a higher call without ennobling the country from which they sprang. '< The fallen, whilst they have illumined with a fresh lustre the glory of their native land, have touched with a new dignity the household which they left for the battlefield. There will be millions who will come back to live to tell children now unborn how a generation before in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, in the ends of the earth, the men of our race were willing to leave ease and comfort, to face privation, torture and death, to win protection for the weak and justice for the oppressed. il There are hundreds of thousands who will never come back. For them there will be for ages to come sacred memories in a myriad of homes of bravo chivalrous moil who gave up their young lives for justice, for right, for freedom in peril. <• This resolution means that the greatest Empire on earth through this House thanks the living of the readiness with which they supported its behest. It also means that this great Empire, through this House, enters each home of the heroic dead, grasps the bereaved] by the hand, and says: —The Empire owes you gratitude for your share as well as for theirs, partakes in your pride for their valour and in your grief for their loss." Rubbti Stamps of all description* may be ordered at the Offioe of the The Times" Oall and select from our illustrated, catalogue.