U.S. MILLIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14712, 18 September 1918, Page 6

U.S. MILLIONS.

SECOND IN FRANCE BEFORE THE AUTUMN. 'I' . LONDON, July 12. ± residing at a meeting of the Overseas Club, when an address on "America an/1 the Wai-" was given by Mr. Jamea Keeley, the American journalist Lord-; Denbigh read the following message from Lord Northcliffe :— "As founder and president of the Overseas Club, I should greatly have liked to bo present to greet my friend Keeley to-da.y. He is admittedly one of the greatest of American editors, and his work m Chicago at the time when German propaganda was at its strongest was of intense service to the\ cause of liberty." Mr Keeley, who was warmly welcomed by a 4arge audience, said: ""There aro now 1,000,000 boys over here, and bet ore the snow begins to fly there will be another 1,000,000, and the stream will contmud to flow. There is a determination m America, to kill Germans, and tfo kill them as speedily as possible. It is a holy and. consecrated blood-lust! We have the money," and our wealth i ia at the service of the world. And as wo open our pocket-books, so we are prepared! to open the idoors ofl »ur homes and give the best of our sons. "We have 15,000,000 Germans and Austrians m America, and the hardest job has beeii the surgical operation of removing the hyphen — the bond sinister. But the operation has been xrerformed. Some patients are recovering, and some will hot recover. (Laughter.) 1 HUN PROPAGANDISTS.

"The German - American alliance claimed a solid block of 2,000,000 members, all Hun propagandists; ready to obey orders. The Germans bought up the small; papers. They bought them like cattle — hundreds of them — an\i hardly at tho price of a good ; hog. .(Laughter.) :, "Now avg have turned over a net 7 leaf. German is going out of schools and! German pages out of school books. German newspapers "will ' not last long. It is not. quite as wise now to express sympathy with Germany as it was a while, ago. . "Shortly after we got into the Avar some milksop drew up a cai'd pledging men to 'fight without hatred.' Now, we are coming over here with a good, ; healthy liatred, not cold-blooded, but ,as avengers;, crusaders. We are here to avenge the Lusitania, Edith Cavell, Cap- , tain TFryatt, tli© sufferings of Northern France, the agonies of Serbia. If 'i blood' brotherhood does not grow out of this joint shedding of blood m • U\e trenches our labor will bo m vain." SURPRISE FROM THE SKIES. Referring to America's efforts m regard" to the supply of aeroplanes, Mr 'Keeley said: 'Keep your eyes on the skies and you may have a lovely surprise which will explain n lot about the delay and bi-ing 'Conviction that tha rijrH thing has been done by waiting.'" Lord Denbigh said: "When the Germans find that they have made the

whole world into a gigantic hornet's nest, and every individual hornet trying to sting Germany, then they will begin to i-ealiso that war does not pay." (Applause.) ' .-