OUR NAVY'S DEFENCE

Evening Star, Issue 16263, 4 November 1916, Page 8

OUR NAVY'S DEFENCE

APPRECIATED BY AMERICA. "When I arrived m America last. Novem. her," remarked. Sir Herbert Tree on his return to England after a prolonged theatrical tour, " I did not notice that people were unduly enthusiastic about our cause. Hut tho people are now keenly pro-Ally, mid a p;ood deal of the welcome acoorded to me was clue to the fact that I oainc from the Old Country. Recent events have completely changed the. American outlook concerning the war. There is a growing consciousness Unit a pressure inexorable and sure, deadly and just, is being placed on the enemy, whose deteat is inevitable. There is no doubt among Americans which side will win. What may be called the 'slow persuasion of recent events' haH decided everything. The push is beginning to tell. You can smell victory in the air in America—the victory which the American people themselves desire. In America the British visitor always behaves with the greatest of e,ood manners because of the possible presence of the hyphenates. But, one could always assert with perfect safety that America had good reasons to be grateful to the British Navy. This is a part of the American conscience which is not shown, but it is th«i« all the same, and the feeling that America owes everything to tho sure shiuk 1 . of our fleet is spreading every day like a prairie lire. It is a reminder which is <ieep in their souls, though it is not known. To be in America when Armageddon is raging makt-i one want to be in England. It is by nc means a rice feeling. One feels that when tho tiger is abroad one ought to have lh» «ro pa Mm."