"BUT FOR BRITAIN"

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16800, 2 April 1919, Page 11

"BUT FOR BRITAIN"

GENERAL PERSHING'S GENEROUS 1 TRIBUTE. Tlie following message, dated 33ecember 7, from '{-Jeneral Pershing, Commander-in-Chief, American , Expeditionary Force, to Judge Alton B-. Parker, chairman of tlhe National Comr mittee .on _ -Arrangement for British > Day, New York City,- has been published by Sir Douglas Haig as a Special Order of the Day:— , - u . '-- "The - achievements of the British* Empire for humanity are too manifold to enumerate,in a short message. Entering the -war to defend the rights of nations, she has -unhesitatingly given her sons and her wealth. Gathered from her loyal Dominions, the men of the British Empire have carried their victorious eagles over many a bloody field. Stedfast in adversity, wounded , with a thousand wounds, Britain's hammer blows have.-never weakened nor faltered. But for, the tenacity of her people, the war would have been lost. To those of us who have been associated with them and who fought beside their gallant troops, words of* praise seem- inadequate to express our .admiration. These tilings our,kinsmen, have done, and these things have brought -an inseparable, union between,' them and ourselves. « • - ' , , • "To the British peoplriswe ottendifour. thanks for the powerful': aid her -Navy, lias given, and offer our great respect for the resolute Anglo-Saxon determination with which she has jheld on, and Are offer our rightf hand of friend-* skip thnt our two'iiatibns may be more firmly linked together to ensure tho future peace of the world."