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While it is difficult to repress a feeling of pride that men should be as brave as those who play the principal parts in this drama, one cannot restrain the further feeling of sorrow for those at home, waiting silently and hopefully for the loved ones who gave up their lives to defend a position from an attack by the Boers. War is glorious, when one reads about the dashing bravery and the wondrous gallantry of the soldiers who do the fighting, but it takes on quite a different appearance when one sees the men fall in battle. Perhaps along with its other beneficent offices the motion picture will help the peace society advocates in their crusade against war. The graphic representation of deaths in battle, followed almost instantly by the equally graphic reproduction of the broken-hearted mourners at home will emphasize, more than mere words can do, the horrors of war, with its waste of life and money. War pictures may be thrilling, but they may convey a deeper meaning, and exert a more powerful and beneficial influence than their makers suspected. - The Moving Picture World, January 22, 1910