Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1918-08-22

der arms. 43 per cent.
Now let's see something of the enor-
nous loss Of life. now we can only
give the correct figures as near as we
can get, up to Aug. ! ]Sl7, and you
who haye watched the reports Will a
gree with me when | say the loss of
lives since then is enormous. The
grand total was 4.S030 900 killed.
wounded and captured. The Central
Powers loss was ) SSi 600. The Allied
loss was s 9l9 600. Russia alone lost
4 .S6 900.
The nation that deserves more sym
pathy than any other nation in the
world. is poor little Belgium, mighty
history could be written Of tbs little
spot on the map, in 1914 Belgium had
population of 1900 0VO souls, now,
she Is all but annihilsted.
We must not tail to think of poor
little Serbia, she has lost l.COO.OOO OF
her men. Now let US see what Uncle
Sam can do in case of emergency.
France with man-power of 5000. 600
men, equipped and put in arms 6 400
600. Now Uncle Sam with his man
power o; 22.OOO.OOO, can put on the
battlefield 10 900, 900.
We will rememoer that in 1914 1t
was Belgium that checked the mighty
hoard OF Germans, until France ~ zip.
ped and rushed nearly seven million
men to the front.
Belgium and France were forced to
do nearly all the fighting the frstyear.
Belgium stood like stone wall until
she was almost annihilated, then 1t
was that England sent to France her
regular army of 100, 900 men, the Ger
man Emperor called it the little con-
temptible army. That army was an
INFLATED, one division of 1900 men
and 400 officers, came out with 5000
men and 81 officers.
Then it was that Great Britain with
man power o: 100000 between Is
and a. years ~ shed her mighty army
of five million to the front. The two
greatest battles the world has ever
known. is the battle Of the Marne and
at Verdon. had the pleasure of speak
ing to Gen. Jeotfre twice while he was
here in Washington, he is one of the
greatest Generals the world has ever
known it was he who won the battle
of the Marne. it was he who checked
and drove back the mighty German
columns and their marvellous lighting
machines, perhaps the best disciplined
ard trained military organization OF
which the world has any knowledge,
seemed 10 be inyincible.
1t was at Marine on one bright Sun =
day morning that three million men
faced each other to murder and Kill.
1t was that bright Sunday morning
that Gen. Jeoffre commanded his army
to stand and die on the spot rather
/ than give, they stood but all did not
get killed Only one BEETLE greater
than the Marine, ard that is the battle
OF Verdon, 1t wss against the slopes Of
Verdon that was hurled the mightiest
assaults in the history Of man. 1t vas
here that civilization paused before
! that impact, then tUtte.ed and fell as
the Prussan hosts swept onward; then
rose again as the dauntless soldiers Of
France responded to that wa,chword
Of liberty. They shall not pass"
II was upon. this battlefield that
500, 600, men 500, 600 Germans and3OO, GOO
French la,ed down their lives, the
main hattle ground Of 3l.2 acres of
ground, it was said that five men were
killed for every,9 square feet or every 3
feet square, in other words they would
be five men deep, think Of 1t.
Today with all its devastation and
ruins, with all the sacrifice Of life, with
all the sorrow 1t represents, Verdon
stands forth as the greatest monument
to courage, bravery and determination
of which the world knows.
OF these 100000 killed only 5000
were found. the rest were shot away
either blown back 10 the elements by
that tremendous fall Of artillery shell
or else lost under the scored and peck.
marked earth which has been churned
and turned over and over again to
depth in many places Of thirty feet,
We cannot read of these horrors
without being brought to deep reflect
ion. One cannot read and learn Of the
suffering endured by Belgium and
France without being saddened for a
lifetime nor ever expect to have that
dreadful picture efFaced from their
memory. Our boys cannot go and see
and come back the same. Those whom
God permits to return to us will come
to us saddened, deeply religious and
sympathetic for human kind as never