BRITAIN'S GREATNESS.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 61, 13 March 1916, Page 2

BRITAIN'S GREATNESS.

AMERICA'S FAITH IN IT,

"Tho people out hero do not realise tlio real might of England and tho part she is playing in this war,'' said Mr David A. <C'raig, of Wellington. who has returned from a, six months sojourn in the United States. "They don't know, for example, that i'lngland absolutely controls the rubber supplies of ihe world, and that American manufacturers of rubber goods are called upon to sign a. guarantee that none of jclie goods manufactured shall ')e exported to enemy countries directly or indirectly before they are allowed to receive any rubber. And the manufacturers arc only too sHad to enter into such a bond and to see that others 'play the game,' as vhey all want tho rubber, and the Allies are prepared to take all the war goods they can turn out. Tt is the same with log-wood (i'mni Jamaica)., worn which indigo dye is being made now that the Gorman dyes are cut out. Some of the American manufacturers were found to be acting suspiciously,

and at once supplies were cut off.' *tft brought them all into line at once, aisit made the manufacturers their own policemen: When the financial embassy went to New York to arrange the war loan of 500,000,000 dollars, the members stayed at the Hotel Biltmore, which the pro-Germans-Threatened to blow up. But it was all arranged qiuotly in throe days—just three days—and the way the American, business man rushed in with dollars was tho finest evidence one. con Id get \ of their sympathy with tho Allies and their unshakable confidence that England was going to come out on top 1

was made