AMERICA'S ADMIRATION FOR BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 13 November 1918, Page 3

AMERICA'S ADMIRATION FOR BRITAIN

Dr. W. T. "Manning, 'in a great sermon to an overflowing congregation at Trinity Church, New York, said that the debt America owed to the British, Empire could never be repaid nor forgotten. "What, words can express," he said, "tho debt that wo owe at this moment, and have owed all these four years, t:o the British Navy keeping its ceaseless watch for us all in the grey North Sea ? From the first week of the war Britain has poured out her treasure and her blood without limit in the cause that is. common to us nil. It is Britain's blockade that has held the German fleet -.captive in the safety of the .harbour from which it has scarcely dared to emerge. It is British transports that have carried across the ocean sixty per cent, of that great army of our noble boys now in S'rance. It is the men of Britain who came voluntarily from all parts of the to fight for freedom beneath ,her flag. It was Britain's action which gave us in America time and allowed us to enter tho struggle under conditions far better than those which she herself had faced. Wo send to Britain our pledge of comradeship and brotherhood. We send this message to her King, her Government, and to the men and women of her great free Empire." '