HORROR OF WAR
4 IS UPON ENGLISH
England Realizes Dark Days
Are Before Her Unless Great
Deeds Are Done.
By William C. Shepherd, United
Press Staff Correspondent.
London, August 25.—By Mail
to New York—Stand in Piccadil
ly Circus tonight and look to the
east. Beyond the city’s roofs,
beyond the fields outside the
town, forty miles away, lies
ff water. This water is only 26
i miles wide; it is the English
Channel. And, on the other side,
is France, where English sol
diers are fighting and dying.
£ Only 120 miles from London
lies an edge of the great French
battlefield. It is only two
hours away on an aeroplane;
only a little more than the bee
line distance from New York to
4 Philadelphia.
Sand n Picadilly Circus, the
heart of London, where the
lights are the brightest and
where London lays—in peace
times—and think of that near
by battleground and you begin
heart is aflutter and why she
k tries to keep herself from think
ing what might happen if
thngs go wrong.
English coolness doesn’t fool
you. I’m writing this just one
* hour after the news has come
to England that 2,000 of her sol
diers have fallen today. It was
^ in the lobby of the House of
Parliament when the message
came. I felt the chill that
spread over that histroic struc
ture. I saw the members of
Parliament—men in white felt
hats, cutaway coats, wingtop
V collars, models of fashion—mov
ing about that great stone lob
by amid the stone statues of the
kings and queens of other dark
days.
. I knew by their faces that
* their hearts were chilled and
that the greatest war that man
kind ever has known had thrown
its spell of horror over them.
Gladstone, in stone, loomed over
a them; he never knew such a war
as this, or such a chilling of
England’s sturdy heart. Near
him, silent as he is, stand the
splendid stone kings of days so
far gone that their deeds are
only dim in the English history
and their names almost forgot
ten. They never saw such a war
* as this.
Relics of England’s history
brooded over us in the great
lobby and reminders of her
darkest days were at every
hand, but these men in their
high white hats knew well, and
as you looked at them you
knew they knew it, that if En
gland does not perform a great
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er deed than all her past history
shows, she will see a darker day
than she has ever seen before.
Stand in the great stone hall
and think of what these En
glish statesmen were thinking
about and the importance of the
moment will almost crush you.
Off to the east there, across the
Channel, 140 members of Parlia
ment are fighting; even now
some of them have laid down
their lives for England; it is
known that some 'of them have
been injured. Tonight in humb
ler places than this massive
house of parliament, the horror
of war will enter for messengers
from the king will carry to wom
en and children short missives of
news that will change their lives
forever. However formally the
king’s message may be written
little children will translate it
before bedtime tonight into two
short words, “Daddy’s dead”,
and women, at the words will
feel an ice at their hearts colder
I than the highest English states
men will ever need to shrink
from.
No wonder Picadilly Circus
is forgotten tonight. In distant
camps English soldiers may be
singing the wartime song,
! “Goodbye, Picadilly, Farewell,
Leicester Square ”
But this song is only a sol
dier’s song. The lifting of a
i man who’s ready to die. London
has forgotten Piccadilly.
I Yon don’t wonder that the
cafes are deserted; that the the
atres are nearly empty! that
London’s smile is gone.
Wherever you are in London
tonight, no matter how the
lights glare and the music plays
you can’t keep your mind or
your eyes on the things about
you. You think of the camp
fires to the east, across the 26
miles of water; you think of the
mangled men and of sobbing wo
men and children; you look at
(the grim-faced Englishmen a
ibout you and you know that
! they’ll fight to the last ditch
j The horror of war is on Lon
jdon and it falls on you and al
'most overwhelms you.
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