Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-23
GEN. LEES DAUGHTER
SEES HORROR Of WAR
Great Misery Sure Heritage of the
Present Strife, She
Says.
Wonders With Many Misgivings il
Present European Conflict
Will Be the Last.

| A special cable dispatch to the New
York Times, from London. says:
| Miss Mary Lee, the only surviving
| daughter of Gen. Robert F. Lee, has
| lust reached London from Hamburg via
| Rotterdam, and today she gave the
CORES pondent striking interview at
Hyde Park Hotel, where she will stop
| until she sails for America.
| Il am a soldiers daughter" she said.
| land descended from a long line OF
soldiers, but what / have seen of this
| war and what I can foresee OF the
misery which must follow have made
me very nearly a peace-at-any-prlce
| woman"
A battalion of Lord Kitchener's new
army was marching by directly beneath
the room in which Miss Lee was speak
ing. They started to sing It's a Long
Way to Tipperary," and Miss Lee, who
had never heard this now imperishable
music hall ballad, went to the window
and stood for some time silently look
ing at the column of khaki-clad men
below her. When she turned to speak
again there were tears in her eyes, and
her voice broke.
Quotes Fathers View.
my father often used to say" she
said, looking straight at table on
which was picture of Lord Kitchener,
autographed by *. of K" himself no
longer ago than last Christmas, that
war was terrible alternative, and
should be the very last. l have re-
membered those words in the last three
months, and 1 often wonder and Won
der with many miSSivingS II in this
case war was the last alternative. AS
1 say, l am soldiers daughter, and
got my first full view of life in the
dark days of one of the worlds great
civil wars, but it has been an altering
experience for me to- watch, one week
in Germany and the next week in Eng
land, the handsome, the strong, the
brave of both countries marching away
to kill or to get killed, perhaps to re-
turn no more, perhaps to return MAIN
ed and useless men. My father used
to say it was not those who We're kill
ed in battle-often a quick and always
a glorious death for a soldier-but
those who, crippled and mangled and
enfeebled, faced after the war a world
that they could nos understand and
that had no place for them.
Puzzles Over Situation.
II think of all of this and ask myself
why must it be? What can be worth
it? 1 feel close to the English people,
and particularly close to the English
army. / have known many English Of
fcers and their wives and daughters.
Last winter, in Egypt, I had the privi-
lege of seeing something Of Lord
Kitchener, and I have a high admira-
ton for him. But much of what 1 see
in the English press seems hysterical
and without reason. The spy mania,
for instance. and the senseless calling
the Germans Huns and vandals. / have
known many German military men, and
I cannot believe that these men are
what the English Imagination has
painted them.
From the beginning of the war I
have been neutral. 1 have tried to fol-
low President Wilson's advice in word
and deed. My sympathy is with suf-
fering wherever it exists-with the
brave men who are fighting and suffer-
ing in the trenches and the brave wom-
en-, who, in practically all the homes
of Europe, are waiting and suffering"