"Whatever your work may be, 1 know well that In a greater or lesser degree, the war has interrupted and affected your daily life, and some of you are already mourning the loss those who were dearest to you. For such grief as yours, no words of mine "could afford consolation. 1 would say only that T know no cause more worthy of the supreme sacrifice then that for which those lives have been given.
We must be thankful that so the war has brought no such casualty ists "as those which overshadowed the early months of the war in 1914, but there must be few to whom it has not meant anxiety or disturbance of mind, discomfort, material loss oF even severe hardship. Husbands and wives have been separated from each other or from their children. Business has been dislocated, Buildings have been commandeered at short notice and at great inconvenience to their owners and occupants. Heavy (axa-Nion has cut into Incomes and imposed severe restriction upon ex= penditure, 'Then again, there are: the daily inconveniences and restrietions of various kinds, not forget blackouts' and the difiteully snd comfort of travelling
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