THE WAR'S REVELATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1917, Page 6

THE WAR'S REVELATION.

BRITAIN'S WEALTH IN HEROES Lo«ilo«. 4 Oct. 20. Mr. Lloyd George at a premutation of a portrait of his daughter, Miss 01won Lloyd George: "These are trying, imyicus, terrible times, and public men who are in the least entrusted with affairs need all the sympathy support, and encouragement that friends can give them. It is an hourly, daily, constant wear of rcspon< sifcility r,f the most terrible and ghastly kind, and there are moments \vhon we feel as if we would like to flee to the "omotest and most unevnlored island ia the Southern Seas and my there iftitil !he times of healing conic. 'The picture is a gift for the benefit of a very gallant division (the Welsh Division) in the field. There arc so many heroes in the conflict that it is a'.imost impossible in despatches to enumerate them. There are =o 'many deeds of valor. It is incredible* the devotion, the valor, and the endurance of. these gallant men at the front. They have given courage a new meaning. They have given it a new standard, a new rating." It moans. something more than it ever meant before. YAY never understood the wrid until the story of this war burst upon us. We never knew, not that amongst us we had a man here, and a man there, who had a heart of gold and was capable of daring and enterprise, who had valor firing his soul but that we had thousands, myriads of them, spread all over the land, in the highest and ii:. tue humblest homes. , ' i

"That is the revelation of this war. A treasure, an inexhaustible treasure, hidden in the heart of the humblest man -of patriotism, consecration, courage devotion, exalted attachment to ideals and readiness of sacrifice for a great puipose. Wo novel knew this. It gives a new pride In the land that has produced so many myriads, of lierotu. We h:'.d thought these qualities were qualities of the great, of the sclict; but they are all great, they are all select. It is a nation of heroes; wo never knew we were capable of such groat, things; and if we can do such thin as in war, w> can also do them in peace." <,