Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 73, Hammond, Lake County, 9 October 1918 — Page 14

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THE TIMES. Wednesday, October 9. 1918

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YEARS Or THE WORLD WARGREAT BRITAIN'S C5F1EAT SHARE IN

The following account of Great Britain's participation in the war was written by Louis Tracy, a member of the British War Mission, to commemorate the fourth anniversary of oar ally's entrance Into the war. Mr. Tracy Is widely known throughout the United States as a novelist, being the author of "The Wind's of the Morning" and some forty other novels. By LOUIS TRACY New York, '-Tomorrow, Au gust 4. a strl(PTV world will have endured four years of war ami enter oa a Kft-h. How runny more years will the human race be enlled on to suiTer this ogotyT God alone knows, liut If It be not Impious for a mortal man to dare Interpret the decrees ot the Almighty 1 do now most solemnly say that, although this carnival of woe may bo permitted by Providence to scourge us for months or years yet to come, It canftot cease till Germany Is beaten to her knees. And why do I dare In the same breath proclaim that the Issue rests In the bands of the Lord of Hosts and yet that I am convinced In my very soul that the only outcome can be Germany's defeat? This Is my answer: If 1 believed otherwise I would cease to he a Christian; tf I admitted the possibility of a Prussian victory I would never again believe that He who gave us the Sermon on the Mount died on the Cross of Calvary for man's Kedempilon. 1 would know, perforce, and go sorrowful to my grave with the knowledge, that Might is more potent than night, that the ethics which brought France, Britain, Italy, America and even poor, torn llussla into the conflict, the principle which led Belgium to risk ami lose all, the sheer sense of justice which has ranged twenty oilier nations on our side, were nothing more nor less than foolish, even grotesque blunders. Yet I laugh to scorn the notion that I shall ever accept any such theory no, not till Milton's reincarnated self declares iilm a disciple of Lucifer, not till Shakespeare rises from bis grave and scoffs at the beautiful England he loved so well, not tlil Lincoln's Gettysburg speech Is proved a sham and a fraud. Some miracles do nappen, but not such miracles as these. I have lost everything I valued In the world. I walk hand In hand with tribulation, but there is a great Joy In my heart that comes to my aid even tn those dreadful watches of the right when memories of the dead drive almost to frenzy those who loved them and still live, because I know yes, 1 know that my country Is fighting for the right, and not my own dear land alone, but her UlUi and wtmM 4 - t i - I f

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kin In every clime where the English tongue is the speech of the people. We have dared all ; we shall gain all. So If you have read Into this preface the meaning I have striven to convey you will understand that In the remainder of tliis brief essay I shall tell of the glory, and the Immensity o Britain's achievements In this war not to Haunt her deeds In the eyes of the world, but as an earnest of the selfsame sacrifices and fdeals that shall How from this great nation of the West in an ever-increasing and irresistible stream. That is my purpose, and I want to declare It now. Britain has done much and, though weary and blood-stained, will do more, hut the measure of her heroic effort can surely be applied to the determination of the splendid country In which 1 write these lines. Why. to mix with you Americans on the days when the news seems had, when some disaster at sea or some reverse on land hills the blood and adds a fresh burthen to an overladen heart. Is the best of all tonics for an Englishman. I have gone out to address audiences of an eve. ling when my soul was heavy within me. when each mouthful of food In a well-appointed club or hotel bad almost -choked me by contrast with the privations better men than 1 were enduring with steadfastness. But the first sight of an American audience, the first ringing cheers evoked not fy my oratory, t;nt my theme, brought a healing and a strengthening altogether Divine In their etlicacy, for here. Indeed, in the truest sense of the phrase, the voice of the people became the voice ot God. Well, the record has many Items. Let us begin with the worst, the Irremediable, the tas levied by death. It Is a sad showing. The British casualties lu ollicers and men ure as follows : August, 1014, to the end of

3 it 1 In the year BUG WO.000 UoU.OOl) S0O.IMH) 500.(KHJ In the year 1017 In six months of the present year (estimated j.ooo.ooo Of these at least one-fifth must be counted .aNjong the dead. So halt a million gallaut men of the British Empire are lying In their graves all over the world or hidden forever tn the terrible ami mysterious depths of the sea, while more than another half million are so maimed and broken that they can never again be counted as useful citizens of a world wherein a man must work if be would eat and therefore live. New York and many other great cities in the United States love a procession, and it Is a startling fact to note that if the dead and wholly war-shattered youth of the British Empire could march down Fifth avenue In platoons of twenty men In a mn'; the pallid host could not pass j

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from Central Park to W.rhlngton sijuare In ten long summer day-!. America Is proud, uml very prope: ly proud, of the great army she baa poured into France. It Is a million, in rtiiirid numbers, a million of first rue fighting men carried In British Sh ps with absolute safety across perilous seas. But Britain has already lost a million In dead and grievously wounded, wii'le two and a half millions have been smitten by the pestilence called Germany. J have not exaggerated

GREAT these figures. They are official. We know some ot the details with a mournful exactitude. During one month In France In HH7 we bad U7.(MKI men killed. In the first twelve months of die war we had 6,0(10 officers and 95.000 men killed. During the month of April of this year as the result of the great battles which began on March 21, BUS, we had over 10.OO0 casualties among officers aloue. Of course we have killed and wounded many Germans. But r-hat does that matter? What does It matter how many ot the brutes are killed? It Is our duty, a duty put on us by the laws we live under, obey and swear by to

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keep on killing them till they cense to plague mankind, i have no concern for Germans. You Americans have a frontier proverb, "A good Injun Is a dead Injun:" Until Germany casts out the devil of Kaiserism and goes back a hundred years to the race which produced some, decent and useful members of the body corpora'e 1 shall believe most firmly that the best German is a dead German. What does grieve me most profoundly Is the knowledge that Britain and every

BRITAIN' BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS word 1 have written would be stultified If you did not realize that I am proud of my own folk has lost the flower cf her manhood, Just as you, my honored friends In America, will lose a stock hard to replace If the million of your magnificent youth In France and the other millions you will put In the field until there are enough dead Germans are fated to show a casualty list comparable with that of Britain. But do not misunderstand me. My faith In the destiny of our Joint races Is supreme. Are not our oc.nd the best warranty of the past and the brightest hop of the future? They are our very own, Kesh of our

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flesh and bone of our bone. They are at once our tribute and our Inspiration. We who gave this holocaust must be worthy of It. We who are left must be more resolute, more knightly.

more grandly Indifferent to loss or suffering, than those who have gone. I Flow can It be otherwise? The cross they bore, the sacrifice they made, ts all the lighter for ns because of their ! example. The blood of the martyrs Is the seed of the Church of Chrisr? The j blood of our dead Is the seed of a race which shell transcend in power end g.-eatness the wildest dream ever dreamed by enthusiastic Pan-German. It must be so. It is a deduction based on the Roundest theory of life, the very essence of all that science has taught us either of men or of the lower animals. But 1 cannot blind my eyes to the Immediate gaps tn our ranks. Our universities are empty. Oxford and Cambridge gave eight thousand of their undergraduates to the army la the first year of the war, and, be It remembered, no matter what view may be held as to the value of a university education, these young men were the future rulers of the British Empire

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ft prime ministers, Its secretaries ot st::te. Its judges. Its governors of faroff lands, its parliamentarians, lawyers, professors, scientists. Its undoubted leaders In every branch of human tlmught and endeavor. That Is part of the price asked of us for cooosing to support Bight as against Might, and It Is a heavy Impost in its( If. Again, we have lost !i-.-rly every ofTirer and man of that small bnt'snperbly efficient array which we threw into France early In August, l'.M-t. It has been estimated that Brlfaln has to;:-!. i on seventeen fronts during the past four years. One can readily enumerate most of them, for her troops !'ive been to the fore In Belgium, ' ;ance, Italy, Serbia, Greece. Russia, .'alcsrire, Mesopotamia, China and .North, East and West Africa, to name only tlie main theaters of the war. She and her Colonies have raised 7,r,oo.Ki soldiers, and of this total England's (not. Great Britain's) proportion is Co per cent. In this regard I must remove a misapprehension, or, to be candid, nail down a Hun lie, which ,has found credence In some quarters. I shall not labor the pointIt should suffice if I state with absolute authority that one man In every seven and a half of the population of England Is In the army. The same ratio holds good of Scotland. Wales has contributed one man In every ten and a fifth, Ireland one man In every twenty-six and a third and the overseas dominions one man In every fifteen. Those are the cold, bard facts as to man power In the army, while the following tattle tells its own story 3nd refutes another Hun lie: Relative proportions of men In British forces and of casualties suffered by each part of P.ritish empire, exclusive of India, Africa, etc., to Novem

ber, l'JIT: Ter Cent of Armed Forces. England and Wales 70 Per Cent of Casualties. 76 30 6 Scotland 8 Ireland C Dominions and Colonies 13 S 1 do not apologize for reverting to the casualty list. It Is essential that these statistics should be made known. It Is difficult in a short article to convey any fair picture of Britain's work In other fields. In heavy guns alone she manufactured during the third year of the war twenty-seven times as many as in the first year and two hundred and twenty times as ranch ammunition. The expenditure of rifle ammunition per week Is now sixty-five times greater than the average weekly expenditure during the first ten months of the war. The output of machine guns has Increased thlrty-clne times. Two thousand miles of railway track, one thousand locomotives and many tens of thousands of wagons have been shipped abroad. The Allnin ilia It on Any

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Istry of Munitions handles 50,000,000 articles per week and sends abroad CO.OOO consignments per week. In addition to over ninety national arsenals. Great Britain hss no.r 5,0tG government controlled factories, all working cay and night on moaln.'MJS and supplies. Women do CO to 70 ; r rent. all the machine-worS; cm r-!'.sil. f v.s s and trench warfar sovoHt ,;. have contributed l,l:"d trained roediunles to the Boyd Fiy'rg Orpa. In one way or another about C.oao.000 British women are working for their country In her need, many of whom never worked In their lives before. Turning to the fleet, what shall I say, what can I say that will be at ad adequate to the theme, of the work done by the British Navy? It would be almost ludicrous In a review of Britain's share In the war to dismiss In a sentence the absolutely vital part borne by the fleet did I not feel assured that every Intelligent man and woman In the United States knows as well as If not better than I that the civilized world owes Its existence today to the unparalleled services rendered by the Navy. And, alas, how can I deal with the aid given to the motherland by Canada, Australia. India and South Africa? The requisite tribute were It to be rendered adequately would need a volume. No review of our four years' fight can omit a brief reference to that illomened word Kultur. According to the flun, the whole quarrel hinges on the refusal of the democracies of the world to accept Kultur. Very well. What is Kultur? I have here a table of the worst forms of crime committed In Germany and England during the ten years 1S37-1007 :

Germany. Murder 3."0 Incest . . 573 Rapes C,"Sl Unnatural Crimes. 811 Malicious and Felonious Wounding 172,153 Malicious damage to property .... 25,753 Arson 610. England. 97 56 216 2'JO 1,202 SoS 273 Total 200,007 2,557 Teople of America, you faUiers and mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts ot the men you have sent to France, I ask you to study that tahle. Kultur should be known by its results, and If benighted England can show such a case against etdlghtened Germany is It not worth four years, or, if need be. forty years of war to keep your country and ours clear of the virus of Kultur? The answer Is being given today wherever the Hun stands up against our soldiers. It Is being dinned into his ears by high explosives and driven Into his carcass by keen bayonets. When he heeds we will quir, and not until he docs heed on Lis knees.

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