GHOSTLY ARMY
“Towards the Peace of Nations,” by Mr. Hugh Dalton, M.P., contains the following striking passages:—“ln the Great War, the statisticians tell us, ten million soldiers were killed and twenty million wounded, nine million children lost their fathers, and five million soldiers’ wives were widowed. “Imagine yourself privileged to stand an emperor or a field-marshal, or an elder statesman, to receive at the gates of death the salute of those vanished hosts. Marching in columns of fours they would take 80 days and 80 nights to pass you, marching unbrokenly through all the hours of light and darkness and dawn and dusk; and for eight days and nights out of those 80 it would be the British dead alone who would be marching by.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 431, 13 August 1928, Page 13
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125GHOSTLY ARMY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 431, 13 August 1928, Page 13
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