AMERICA'S DAY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 162, 6 July 1918, Page 5

AMERICA'S DAY

CELEBRATED WITH TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIASM THROUGHOUT THE STATES. ' FORTY TWO NATIONALITIES TAKE PART. GREAT PROCESSION IN NEW YORK. BRITAIN'S PART IN THE PAGEANT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Julv 6, 8.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 4. Seventy five thousand persons will march during Independence Day celebrations. The parade will include 42 races and nationalities, 150 floats and 123 bands. , Two squadrons of battle-planes will drop a million copies of ''The Star-spangled Banner" on the paraders and sightseers." Britain will be representel by two floats in pageant, for the first time in history. One will represent England, its colonies, dominions, army and navy. The other will illustrate the incident of the Battle of -Jutland, when. John Travers CornwelT, 16 years old. served a gun alone on the Chester until mortally wounded. The Allied nations will have representatives on the reviewing stand. The parade will inarch up Fifth Avenue. There will be other celebrations throughout th,e United States in which citizens of the Allied nations and subject nationalities of the Central Powers will take part. LATER. The day was celebrated with tremendous enthusiasm/there being patriotic speeches and demonstrations throughout tlie country.

AMERICA'S NEW SHIPS. INDEPENDENCE DAY LAUNCHINGS. 112 VESSELS TAKE THE WATER. (Received July 6, 8.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 4. , The lannchings to-day included the folio-wing:-Eastern Shipyards .. -. .. 12 Pacific Shipyards .-. .. . - • • 54 . Chicago Lakes Districts . . . - • • 14 Southern Shipyards . . - • - • 22 Other yards, .aibout .. • - . . ■ 10 The Pacific launchings comprised. 24 steel and 30 wooden vessels. A feature of the San Francisco la\mchings was the launching of eight destroyers at 15 minute intervals. The tonnage launched on the Pacific Coast amounted to a quarter of a million. :: : " . f AMERICAN CONCEPTION OF THE GREAT STRUGGLEv ■■■.■•■••• THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE. SETTLEMENT -'MUST BE FINAL. 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Associfttior and Reuter.) (Received July 6, 8.40 a.m.) •. . WASHINGTON, July 4. Preidenst Wilson, speaking at the Mount Vernon celebrations of Independence Day, gave America's conception of the great struggle in which they.were engaged.

"On the one hand," lie said, ''stand the people of the world, the people of stricken Russia are still among the rest, plough they, for the moment, are unorganised and helpless. Opposed to them, the masters of many armies, stand an isolated friendless group of Governments who speak for no common purpose, but only for selfish ambitions of their own, by which none can profit but themselves, whose people are fuel in the;ir disposing of the lives and fortunes of every peoplefriio fall in their power'; governments clothed in the trappings of'prinutrve anthority. of an age altogether alien to our own. - : ■:-' ; .■ . ' '"There can be but one issue or settlement. It must be imal. There can be no compromise. No half-Way decision would be tolerable; no halfway decision conceivable.' ■"' ' ! ' These are ends % f or which the associated peoples of the world are fighting and which.must "be them before there can be peace. f "(1) The destruction of every arbitary power, anywhere, that can separately, secretly .and of its single .choice, disturb the peace .of the world; or if it cannot be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to'virtual impotence. • • "(2). The settlement of every question, whether..of territory, sovereignty, economic "arrangement, or'political relationship, upon the basis of free acceptance, that settlement to be by the people immediately concerned and, not upon a basis of material interest or .advantage of any other nation or people which may desire a different .settlement tor the sake ofits own exterior influence or mastery. ; ''(3) The consent of all nations to be governed in their conduct towards each other by the same principles of honour and respect for the common law of civilised society, that govern individual citizens in all modern states, and in their relations'with on another, to the end that all promises -and covenants nrnv be sacredly observe*! no private plots or conspiracies hatched, no selfish injuries wrou'ght with impunity, and a mutual trust established upon the handsome foundation of mutual respect for right. '" ; "(4) The establishment of an organisation of peace, which shall make certain that the combined power of free nations will cibeck evei'y 'invasion of right and serve to .make peace .-and insfTce more secure by affording a definite tribunal of opinion to which all must submit and by Which every natiortal readjustment that cannot amicably 'agreed up9 n by the peoples directly concerned, shall be sanctioned. "These great objects can be put. into a single sentence- — what we seek is a ring of law based upon consent of the governed and sustained by the organised-opinion of mankind.''