"There never has been, 1 suppose, all the history of war such an opportunity for youth. "The Knights of the Round 'Table, ihe Crusaders all fall back into. the past, not only stant but prosaic. "These young men going forth' every morning to guard their' native land, to guard all that we stand for, these young men going forward holding in their hands these instruments of colossal and shattering power, for whom it may be said that every morning brought forth a noble chanige—these young men deserve our gratitude and deserve to rank among Gort, the highest of all brave men who in 60 many ways and on so many occasions are ready and will continue to be ready to give life and all to their native land.
T return to the Army. In a long series of very fierce battles, now on this front, now on that, fighting on three fronts at once, in battles fought by two or three divisions against an. equal or somewhat larger number of the enemy and fought very fiercely on old ground that so many of us knew so well, our losses in men have exceeded 20,600 killed, wounded and missing.
take this occasion to express the Jsympathy of the House with all who suffered bereavement or are still'anxicus. The President of the Board of Trade fs not here today. His son was killed. "Many in the House have felt private emiction inthe sharpest form.
would say this about the missing.
have a large number of wounded Jwho have come back safely to this "There may be very many reported missing who will come back some day. In this way or another in the confusion of this Aght it is inevitable that many should be left in conditions which required no further resistance from them. Against this loss of over 30,000 men we may set a far heavier loss certainly infileted upon the enemy. Our losses in material are enormous. We have perhaps lost one-third of the men we lost in the opening days of the battle of March 21, 1018.
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