12th November 1914
12.11.14 “Shells”
G. Ward Price P.D.M in Belgium. “Nothing
brings home to me more vividly the stupendous scale of this war than to reflect
when you hear the artillery banging away at any one point on the front, that
the same thing is going on more or less vigorously right away from the coast of
the N. Sea here to the German frontier of France 300 miles away to the south of
Verdun (average cost of shell about £5). It is one of the characteristics of a
modern battle that the first indication that you have of its existence is often
to find yourself right in the middle of it.” Mr Asquith’s Guildhall Speech, “The
din of conflict, the sight of ruins and devastation, the long agony of daily
and nightly struggle among the bursting shells in the trenches, the patient and
anxious vigil of our seamen beset by mines and the submarine – all these
things, the terrible actualities of modern warfare, only come to us by report,
except indeed when they are brought home more closely and more acutely by the
maiming or the death of those whom we love.
Received
letter from Lena with Will’s (her brother?) from Abadan and how his accident
prevented him from going on General Dobell’s staff.
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