DEEDS WITHOUT WORDS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 153, 26 December 1918, Page 6

DEEDS WITHOUT WORDS

A leading article in the Philadelphia Public Ledger pays a generous tribute to tho efforts and sacrifices made by Great Britain m the war. "We all knew the stuff of which Old England ■was made," says the journal. "What she has done in this war—quietly, _unboastingly as is her wont—-has surprised no one who knew, English character, English stamina,, and English history. The doom of Germany's de3potio ambition was sealed on, the day that Britain's councillors wheeled that nation into line with ihe forces of freedom. _. England was no more a military nation, than America when the war began. She learned to fight by fighting—and dyinu. We are profiting to-day by her tragic experience. Thousands of American lads wiJi come home to us alive and whole because thousands of our Mood-brothers from the British 1 Isles have been killed and mutilated—and liave taught us how to escape. The Briton is a dour fighter, and knows no end to a. struggle save victory or death. He never fights a limited liability war—he goes in with his whole soul. The day that British khaki appeared upon the battlefields of France it was decreed that there could be but one of two ends to this conflict — the collapse of the British Empire or the final failure of Germany's dream of worid conquest. But no one, cavo the German Intelligence Department, has known, or over will know half of what Britain has dpne. When it comes to self-laudation th& British are the poorest advertisers the world has ever seen."