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WHAT BRITAIN HAS DONE
- 51,000,000 tons of coal and oil fuel,
- 2,000,000 horses and mules,
- 100,000,000 hundredweights of wheat,
- 7,000,000 tons of iron ore,
and, beyond this, has exported goods to the value of £500,000,000.
Here ends my list of figures and here this chapter should end also; but, before I close, I would give, very briefly and in plain language, three examples of the spirit animating this Empire that to-day is greater and more worthy by reason of these last three blood-smirched years.
There came from Australia at his own expense, one Thomas Harper, an old man of seventy-four, to help in a British munition factory. He laboured hard, doing the work of two men, and more than once fainted with fatigue, but refused to go home because he "couldn't rest while he thought his country needed shells."