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VISION OF PEACE,

MEANT TO MEN WHO FOUGHT.

ME Philip Gibbs writes in, the Dendy Chromicie as follows.

„word.”"Fones” means most nów to the man who fought, and still remain alive.--

It will make them think back to those years of work when the thought of peace was a kind of weakness, tempting them

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despair-beesuse there was no sign of it; those early years of trench warfare when the greatest advance was, 200 yards or 500; these years of intolerable boredom punctuated by hours of dreadful- ness not good to remember, followed by ather years when each hig battle began with the hope of a quick finish and only led to new ridges, new slaughter. now abominations.

I was there at the start and I remember, now that-Peace has "mada all that past history, the splendid optimism of the.." Old Contemptibles, who came first into France, with kisses blown to them by village girls all along the

- coads, and fruit and flowers thrust into their hands as they went for- ward to the unknown Front.

Now we sha'n't be long!” they shouted, and looked for victory in three months or so. Some of them fell at Mons and Le Cateau, and some on the Aisne, and there were not many left after the second battle of Ypres and Neuve Chapelle, except those who were lucky with

Blighty" wounds.

COMING OF THE ARMY. The New Army came out to France-the "Kitchener blokes," as we called them then, and I saw the first of them come, and others, and others, in a steady tide of youth, 11-months trained. They had been desperate to get out, believing quite honestly that; they would be "Too late for the waz" Too late, oh God!

For a little while, even after a spell in the trenches and personal encounters with the strength of the enemy, they had a queer hope, almost a definite belief, that the war would soon be over. Peace was generally three months ahead. Generals as well as privates, Staff officers as well as sergeants, shared that mystical faith in an early peace. "It will come as suddenly as war came," they said, and could give no reason for their faith.

Gradually that idea disappear- ed. In its place come the awful conviction that this war would go on for over and that, Peace' was but a mirage luring men of feeble minds. It was the doom of mento sit always in dirty ditches, to live in holes in the ground, to go on fighting and killing until it was their turn to be wounded, or blinded, Or shell-shocked or grassed, or killed. For the civilisation was a memory="re

vived at times in French villages behind the lines and the decent ways of life had disappeared, and **home. "

was another word that made for weakness and was not spoken of except a little while before seven days' leave (once in 18 months, and damned lucky, too), and a little while afterwards

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Instead, if they ever talked on the subject, they said. "We are fighting to kill the Boche, and if I think it was on the day when we don't kill bir he'll kill us." we broke the Drocourt-Queant, They looked back at England as line in September of last year: it was reflected for them in the that victory and peace came in daily papers which came out to sight at last. Those masses their billets, or as they saw it on of prisoners coming down, leave, and for some reasons which almost in battalion formation, they could hardly explain at all German Guards among them it distressed and angered them. grinning at their captured belonged to an Let us tell the truth now that comrades, Peace is near.

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It was their hammer strokes. The soul of England will be epoch of damnable strife, unless him to angry ridicule. There speeches at great banquets, what after the combined victory on the silent for awhile at this news of the ideals for which the first men time they the fighting men Marne, which, as Marshal Foch Peace, or should be so, in remem fought, for which all of them was not much sign of demoralisa-were being eaten by vermin in shell said, brought the final decision brance of those who fell to gain fought, whether conscious or not tion about that lot who fought holes under the fire of great guns. We entered great cities and were it that million dead boys of ours of their mission, are fulfilled in the in the last night-raid. They Yet they went on with the joy rewarded by the joy of their who belong to the great ghost hearts of peoples and in the came back with a tiger-pounce of war, grizely, patiently, dogged-populations liberated after all army which will for ever haunt philosophy of their leadership. “A

ly, not without gaiety now and those years from the rule of the the fields of battle, and all that war to end war." at Cambrai in November of 17.

"A warto "A war for Here and there, as I know, a then, not without compensations field-grey men, and then, on other youth of their nations-kill militarism." padre, kept up the old fetish to for all wretchedness in comrade- November11, on the way to Mons, how many millions more 7-who the liberties of the world's dem- cheer up a battalion of tired men. ship and the prestige of valour I heard the news for which all joined, those ranks in multitudes.ocracy."

I have it on good authority that and the joke that was always the world had been waiting." we shall have Peace very soon....handy-except in the very bad Under their white flag the ....I can tell you boys that if you hours, and bardly a soul in all enemy had made abject aur- I think of them on the Somme,¡ of ours who died, and all those get through the next scrap that Army, not one that ever I render and had signed the terms round Artaa, on the way to others, will be cheated in their 175. and the answer he had was "Old met in health and courage, would of armistice, and that morning, Passchendaele, south of St. graves and that great army of Stuff, padre!" and most of them admit the chance of defeat, or for the first time in all the war. Quentin, in other fields where I ghosts above the stricken fields did not get through the next scrap anything but our supremacy in there was no sound of guns, and saw them lying so many of will demand vengeance upon Bedsteads with patent non saggi in that particular crowd. After the long run at some time un- that night there were no evil them. I think also of those dishonoured and disgraced hum-

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flashed in the sky, but only the young Belgians I saw upon the shity. The cult of hatred must good They had Peace very Their professional pride, attach-sweet light of the stars. Iser, and in Dixmude and give place to something higher springs. English Manufacture soon-even before the Armistice. ed to battalion or division, their That was the real day of Peace Pervyse, and other flating towns, than that, or Europe will be

THE OLD FERASES.

pride of manhood, some old for our fighting men, when the and of the French,hose sacrifice cösked again in blood. Out of The old convictions about the instinct in their blood, from river of blood which had flowed was vast through all the war, this agony there must come new White Enamel causes of the war, and its pur- yeoman ancestry of English through many fields was stopped amazingly herole and of the wisdom, or the folly of men is

fresh and incurable, and there is no hope pose, and its ideals, had disap-stock, from the fighting clans of at last, and the last of our living Americans, who, peared very largely from our Scotland, from Saxon and Norman boys were reprieved from death splendid

through th soldiers minds. No one could and Celt (fighters all), forbade They were not excited, outward offered tell them now that they were do- them to think that the Germans ly. They told, the news for the ing the things they had to do to would ever win, or gain peace by peasants they passed in theiz

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