A VOICE FROM THE FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 February 1918, Page 3

A VOICE FROM THE FRONT.

A man from the front remarked in London the other night: "How wonderful to see everything upstanding and in order. You have no idea what it means—how it gets on one's nerves —to see everywhere destruction, houses battered to bits, vast holes in the countryside, trees and hedges torrTfo shreds —horrible, wanton, stupid, devilish destruction. Here everything is as it was, and ever will be. The effect is extraordinary. Not even yet does the British public quite sense the meaning of war, even though its sons are in it There is some flummery going on, and the stay-at-homes are continually titivating themselves with buttons and what not to show how brave and busy they are—at Whitehall or somewhere at a safe distance from the front. Unless you have been out you will never~understand the full, dreadful meaning of modern war."