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Show I HOMES WRECKED, CHILDREN BEREAVED. One of the stories of the war In today's Standard says the losses in the battle of the River Aisne, which is now in progress, are bo heavy that the officials hesitate to make them public. Approximately 3,000,000 men are engaged and they have been battling since 8unday along a front of 130 miles, from the Oise to the Meuse river. With casualties totaling 10 per cent, each side will have about 150,000 dead and wounded. Marching eight ( abreast, that army of killed and injured in-jured would extend from North Ogden Og-den to Salt Lake, and, moving at the rate of three mlleB an hour, would require over 13 hours to pass through Ogden. With 500 on each train of ten car3, 600 trains would be necessary to move them. The population of the city of Ogden is something over 30,000. Ten cities of this size are represented in the casualties. When the high school children of 1 Ogden parade, in numbers they pre sent the appearance of a small array, but t.hey do not equal some of the i regiments which have been wiped out. i When we stop to think that a very i big fraction of the men who have been shot are married and that in Germany, England and France, many little boys and girls are watching for tho coming of their papas and that l long before ChrlRtrnas, each will be 1 informed that the one for whom they have waited will never return, that , he was killed at the battle of the J Aisne. we arc brought face to face with a fearful thing, called war, and ' we shudder as we contemplate tho extent of the horrors being brought home to millions of people as the fighting in the north of France pro-greases. pro-greases. And that Is not all. The men themselves who are wounded are In countless thousands of cases suffering suffer-ing agonies. They are out in the rain, with heads, arms and legs shattered shat-tered and vital organs pierced, and many of them will not be removed from where they have fallen until life's blood has ebbed away. The Germans want to know that the enemy has fallen by the thou-Bands, thou-Bands, and the French would multiply those figures, and yet neither they nor we would sanction a struggle so brutal could wc but see all that it means to humanity, particularly to the homes of civilization |