THE ROAD TO VICTORY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16978, 14 April 1917, Page 7

THE ROAD TO VICTORY.

AMERICA SEES THE WAY. Router's Telegrams. LONDON, April 12. (Received April 13, at 9 p.m.) Speaking at the American luncheon to Mr Lloyd George. Mr Page said : "We have set out to help .the enterprise of having the earth as a place worth living in. We have come in answer to the high call of duty and not for any material reward or territory or indemnity or conquest or anything. We have only the high duty to succour democracy when it is desperately assailed. Mr Lloyd George, in the course of his reply, said, that when the Americans were told that they would not be allowed to cross and rec.ross the Atlantic except at their peril they could not think it possible that any. sane people should behave in that maimer. They tolerated it once • they tolerated it twice, until at last it became clear that the Germans really meant it. Then America acted and promptly. Hindenburg's line was drawn along the shores of America, and tho Americans were told that they must not cross it. America said, " Wliat's this." Germany said, "This is our line, beyond which you must not go," and America said, " Tho place for that line is not on the Atlantic but on the Rhine, and we must help you to roll it up, and they havo started on the road to .victory with absolute assurance. Victory, must be found in the one word, ships, and with characteristic keenness the Americans have fnlly realised that and have already arranged to build one thousand .3000 ton

vessels for the Atlantic trade. The British, are slow blundering but -S 6 t there. Tlie Americans get there sooner. That is why we are glad' to see them in. We have been tihree years in this business, and having got through every blunder, we have got a good start now. We aro right out on our course." Mr Lloyd George suggested that America should study Britain's blunders and start where Britain now is and not where she started. MR MASSEY AND SIR J. Gi WARD PRESENT. Australian and In.Z. Cable AssooiifcicE. . LONDON, April 12. (Received April 13, at 11.25 p.m.) Mr Massey and Six- J. G. Ward attended the Anglo-American banquet.