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CHAPTER XXIII (Continued) ‘‘Now Just why would a French blacksmith, or a French shoemaker want to attack us? No, It Is merely the rulers. I never had seen a Frenchman before I came here, and It will be just the same with the majority of Frenchmen as regards us. They weren't asked about it any piore than we were.” “Then what exactly is the war for?” asks Tjaden. Kat shrugs his shoulders, “There must be some people to whom the war is useful.” ‘Well, I'm not one of them,” grins Tjaden. ‘Not you or anybody else here.” "Who are they, then?” persists Tjaden. “It isn't any use to the kaiser, either. He has everything he can want already." “I'm not so sure about that,” contradicts Kat, “he has not had a war up till now. And every full-grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he wouldn't become famous. You look in your school books.” “And generals, too,” adds DeterIng, ‘‘they become famous through war” “Even more famous than emperors,” adds Kat. "There are other people back behind there who profit by the war, that’s certain,” growls Detering. “I think it is more a kind of fever,” says Albert. “No one in particular wants it, and then all at once there it is. We didn’t want the war, the others say the same thing—and yet half the world is in it, all the same.” ‘‘But there are more lies told by the other side than by us,” say I; “just think of those pamphlets the prisoners have on them, where it says that we eat Belgian children. The fellows who wrote that ought to go and hang themselves. They are the real culprits.” Muller gets up. “Anyway, it is j better that the war is here instead of in Germany. Just you take a look at the shellholes.” “True,” assents Tjaden, “but no v ar at all would be better still.” He Is quite proud of himself because he has for once scored over us volunteers. And his opinion is quite typical here, one meets it time and again, and there is nothing w r ith which one can properly counter it, because that is the limit of their comprehension of the factors involved. The national feeling of the soldier resolves itself into this—here he is. But that is the end of it; everything else from joining up onward he criticises from a practical point of view. Albert lies down on the grass and growls angrily: “The best thing is not to talk about the rotten business.”

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