But they stand just where I tell you.
And the horror of it no man knows.

The news is suppressed.

Even those who see it and know it do not realize it.

Four of the crack regiments of this kingdom--regiments that contained the flower of the land and to which it was a distinction to belong--have been practically annihilated, one or two of them annihilated twice.

Yet their ranks are filled up and you never hear a murmur.