The human mind had not then made, as it afterward did, the sole object of its energy the destruction of human life.

Yet with a deepening knowledge of the instruments of death has come, I trust, a more revolting sense of the horrors and futility of war.

The romance and chivalry of the profession of arms has gone forever.

Let us hope that in the years to come the human mind will bend all its energies to right the wrongs and avert the contentions that result in bloodshed.
On the following Sunday, we had a church parade in the square in Armentieres.

Two or three men watched the sky with field glasses lest an enemy plane should come up.