Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-04
GREAT BR|TA|N'S SHARE
IN FOUR YEARS OF WAR
Anniversary Date Finds Nation
Still Determined Germany Must
Be Beaten to Her Knees.
LOUIS TRACY WRITES REVIEW
Conservative Figures Indicate More
Than 100000 English Subjects
Have Been Killed In Giant Strug-
gle-Crime Increases In Germany.
BY LOUIS TRACY.


NEW YORK. August s.--To-morrow.
August 4 stricken world will have
endured four years OF war and enter
on a fifth. How many more years will
this agony? God only knows. But If
il be not impious for mortal man to
dare interpret the DEGREES OF the Al
mighty. | do now most solemnlS say
may be permitted by Providence To
scourge US for months or years yet to
come. il cannot cease till Germany is
beaten to her knees. And why do
he issue rests in the hands OF the
Lord OF Hosts and yet that l am CON
WINGED in my very soul that the only
outcome can be Germanys defeat?
This is my answer: II believed other
wise / would cease to be Christian.
if admitted the possibility OF Prus-
sian victory would never again be-
liere that He who gave us the Sermon
on the Mount died on the cross OF Cal
vary for mans redemption. l would
know, perforce. and go sorrowfu to
my grave with the knowledge, that
Might Is more potent than Right. that
the ethics which brought France. Brit
ain, Italy. America and even poor torn
Russia into the conflict the principle
which LED Belgium to risk and lose all,
the sheer sense of justice which has
oil
side, were nothing more nor less than
foolish. even grotesque plumbers. Yet
l laugh to scorn the notion that shall
ever accept any such theory: no-n0t
till Millions reincarnated self declares
him a disciple Of Lucifer. not till
Shakespeare rises from his grave and
SCOTS at the beautiful England he loved
so we'll, not Till Lincoln's Gettysburg
speech Is proved a sham and fraud.
Some miracles do happen, but not such
miracles as these. have lost every
thing l valued in the world. | walk
hand in hand with tribulation. bu,
there is great JOY in my heart that
comes to my aid even in those dreadful
watches OF the night when memories
Of the dead drive almost to frenzy
those who loved them and still live he
cause I know, yes. 1 know, that my
country IS fighting for the right-and
not my own dear land alone. but her
kiln and kin in every cline where the
English tongue is the speech of the
people. We have dared all; we shat!
gain all.
WONDERFUL SACRIFICES
ENDURED ny BRITISH
So. II you have read into this pre-
face the meaning ! have striven TO con
rey. YOU will understand that in the
remainder OF this brief essay | shall
tell Of the glory and the immensely OF
Britain's achievements in this war. NOT
ia faunt her deeds in the eyes OF Tie
world but as an earnest assertion Of
the self-same SACRIFICES and ideals that
shall fiow from this great nation or
the West IN an everincrcasinc and
irresistible stream. That is my pur-
pose, and l want to declare /; now.
britain has done much, and though
weary and blood-stained, will do more
nut the measure of her heroic effort
can surely be applied TO the determine
ton of the splendid country in which
| write these lines. Why TO mix with
YOU Americans ION III eidays when the
i'sws seems Bad when some disaster
a; sea or some reverse on land chills the
h.ood and adds fresh burden TO an
oEeT-!aden heart, is the best OF all
tcntcs for IN Enelishman. | have gone
out TO address audiences OF an evening
"hen nay sou! was heavy within me.
when each mouthful of food in we'll
appointed club or hotel had almost
choked me by contrast with the priva-
lions better men than ] were enduring
with steadfastness. But the first sight
al an American audience. the frs, ring
ing cheers evoked not by my orStory.
but my theme. brought healing and
8 strengthening altogether divine in
t3e!r efficacy. for here, indeed in the
truest senss Of the phrase, the voice
of,the people became the voice OF God.
You see how ! wander from my sub
jeci. How can ! help st. To tell OF
Britains part in the war | must deal in
dry figures. and my pen runs of OF il.
own accord into a paean of thankful
ness that America is with us in this
struggle until by the paths Of vaior
and death snail have won com
p!ete and lasting victory over our COM
mon enemy. sui, this is sad if
glorious anniversary. and II is in the
very nature Of things that on such an
occasion We should count gains and
losses strlke balance sheet, to
speak, try not 10 humbug ourselves
with fictitious figures Judge by &C
countant statistics and not allow The
wish 10 be father to the thought
TAX LEVIED by DEATH
on BRITISH MAN POWER
Well, the ledger has many items
Aet ms begin with the worst the ir-
HeTned:abie, the tax levied by death
Vt is sad showing. The British cas-
ualties in officers and men are as
follows:
August, 1914, 20 the end OF
1919 ..........,... $50 900
IN the year 1916 ........... $4,000