One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war; . .22 >> OH a o w CO co t-H < H t-H | « bC «002 03 -<-=-G 5 S1 GQ 3 & 8 3 g>co& o. 5 a co a « 4 o SI og .2 3 <! ^ oj*^ <u, . s -^o ^ P « 5 H0^ ALL EUROPE PLUNGED INTO WAR 21 ments of destruction, of vast quantities of explosives, of multitudesof death-dealing weapons. Food supplies need to be diverted in thesame direction, the demands of the soldier being considered first,those of the home people last, the latter being often supplied atstarvation prices. There is plenty of
One hundred years of conflict between the nations of Europe, the causes and issues of the great war; . .22 >> OH a o w CO co t-H < H t-H | « bC «002 03 -<-=-G 5 S1 GQ 3 & 8 3 g>co& o. 5 a co a « 4 o SI og .2 3 <! ^ oj*^ <u, . s -^o ^ P « 5 H0^ ALL EUROPE PLUNGED INTO WAR 21 ments of destruction, of vast quantities of explosives, of multitudesof death-dealing weapons. Food supplies need to be diverted in thesame direction, the demands of the soldier being considered first,those of the home people last, the latter being often supplied atstarvation prices. There is plenty of work to do—of its kind. Butit is of a kind that injures instead of aiding the people of the nations. TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF WAR This individual source of misery and suffering in war times isaccompanied by a more direct one, that of the main purpose of war—destruction of human life and of property that might be utilizedby an enemy, frequently of merciless brigandage and is horrible to think of the frightful suffering caused by every greatbattle. Immediate death on the field might reasonably be welcomedas an escape from the suffering arising from wounds, the terriblemutilatio
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