AMERICA AT WAR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 29, 29 October 1918, Page 3

AMERICA AT WAR

ADDRESS BY ME, C. H. POOLB, M.P.

■v Interesting-reference to America s>. war preparations were made by Mr. C. H. Poole, M.P., at the Y.MAJ. on Sunday afternoon in an address on "War AVork on the Pacific Slope." The Hon. C. M. Luke presided. The tremendous evidence of luiaki and navj blue impressed Mr. Poole on arrival in San Francisco. "I saw," said Mr. Poole, "a regenerated race of people. I saw a nation that had thrown aside the secondary affairs of nation-building. ,1 saw the organisation of-the greatest republic in tho world, developing /ami organising and shaping its forces for tho great victory." Hi:; opinion was hegotten of a very stv :•■;', demonstration of national spirit and«> ..■rminntioh, and of a demonstration of v .v material evidence of America's The United State's had speedily and magnificently answered the call to hurry up with tlio dispatch of her men, and ho had been told that in some of tho transports, so 'many men did they curry, there were three relays of men sleeping in tho samo hammocks, and the soldiers were allowed to go on deck only one hour per day to get fresh nir. To his ; mind the two greatest miraclce of the war had boon tho organisation of the British Army and the voluntary discipline of America. President-Wilson had been brought into contact with ono of the greatest problems a President hud ever been called upon to face, and, Mr. Poole believed, his understanding with the Allies justified him in taking as much time as possible in getting into tho fight. Mr. Poole concluded by describing some of tho groat naval and military establishments ori tlfe Pacific Slope, and paid a high tribute to the ivork being done at those places by the Y.M.C.A. The American soldiers and sailors were of a splendid clonn-cut type, but they never boasted. They recognised that they wero up ugainst a tremendous fight, and they were always ready lo praise loudly the noble exploits of the soldiers and sailors of the Allies and the Dominion troops who had borne tho lieat of tho struggle for 60 long.