Evening star., 1918-08-04

ualties in officers and men are as
follows:
August, 1914, to the end of 1915. -. .bs0. 900
IN the year 1915. .......-............ 0ooVo
In the year 1917. 17...................-S S00.0 900
In six months Of the present year
testimated) ..................... booooo
100000
OF these, at least one NTH must be
counted among the dead. So half mil
lion gallant men Of the British empire
are lying IN their graves all over the
world or hidden forever in the terrible
end mysterious depths of the sea, while
moro than another half million are 50
manned and broken that they can never
again be counted as useful citizens Of
world wherein a man must work II he
would eat and therefore live.
New York and many other great
cities In the United States love q
procession. and It is a startling fact
to note that II the dead and wholly
war-shattered youth OF the British
empire could march down Fifth ave-
nue. in platoons of twenty men in a
rank the pallid host could not pass
from Central Park to Washington
square in ten long summer days
America is proud. and very properly
proud. of the great army she has
poured into France. 1t is a million
In round numbers. But Britain ms
already lost a million in dead and
grievously wounded. while two and a
half millions have been smitten by
A.
Il have not exaggerated these
figures. They are official. We know
some of the details with a mournful
exactitude. During one month in
France in 1917 we had $1,000 men
killed. In the first twelve months
of the war we had $500 officers and
$4,000 men killed. During the month
of April this year, as the result Of
the great battles which began on
March 81, 1918. We had over 10000
casualties among officers alone OF
course, we have killed and wounded
many Germans. But what does that
matter? What does it matter how many
of the brutes are killed? 1t is our duty
duty put on US by the laws we live un-
der, obey and swear by-to keep on kill
kind I have no concern for Ger
mans. You Americans have from
tier proverb: "A good Injun is dead
Injun." Until Germany casts out the
devil of kaiserism and goes back a
hundred years to the race which pro-
duced some decent and useful mem
bers of the body corporate. shall be-
man is a dead German. What does
grieve me most profoundly Is the
knowledge that Britain-and every
word I have written would be stulu-
fed II you did not realize that lam
proud of my own folk-has lost the
flower Of her manh6od. Just as you.
my honored friends in America, will
lose stock hard to replace II 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 . casualty HIST comparable with
that Of Britain.
But do not misunderstood me. Ny
faith in the destiny of our joint races
rs supreme. Are not our dead the best
warranty Of the past and the bright
est hope of the future? They are our
very own. flesh of our nesh and bone
of our bone. They are at once our
tribute and our inspiration.
We who gave this holocaust must be
worthy of 1t We who ara left must
be more resolute. more kntghtly.
more grandly Indifferent to loss or
suffering than those who have gone.
How can II be otherwise7 The cross
they bore, the sacrifice they made. In
all the lighter for US because Of their
example. Tho blood OF the martyrs
is the seed Of the church Of Christ
The blood Of our dead is the seed OF
a race which shall transcend in power
and greatness the widest dream ever
dreamed by enthusiastic pan-German.
It must be %. It is q deduction
based on the soundest theory Of life,
the very essence Of al that science
has taught rs either of man or Of the
lower animals. But I cannot blind
my eyes to the immediate gaps in cur