AMERICAN VIEW

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2360, 16 January 1915, Page 7

AMERICAN VIEW

BRITISH, EMPIRE PRAISED. ' Interesting sentiments aro expressed by Mr. Choate, the former Ambassador of the United States in London, in a preface to the American edition of th« late Professor Cramb's work on. Germany. Mr. Choate is one of the most pioniinent'public men in Amorica. Ho says that "in the last 20 year*' there appear to liave grown up in the German mind certain ideas about England which liavo no foundation or truth, and which are now being tested, with a startling surprise to Germany; that tlia British Empire is ready to fall to picceg'. of its own weight and of its'own age; that England, having tasted the sweets^. of empire, is destined to give way and Germany to have its turn; that the nw. dividual' Englishman is degenerate and< effeminate, softened by luxury andjn-. diligence, and is no longer a fighter. '] . He adds that the actual conflict has gone far enough, ono would think* 1 ' disabuse Germany of some of its ideas about England. Instead of hor Empire being ready to fall to pieces by the, dropping off of her colonies, armies are marching to licr aid from all her Dominions beyond the sea, ready to fight- for her life with as ardent patriotism as the regular British soK} dier; and, instead of any flinching or holding back on tho part of tho mdivi-, dual Englishman, they aro all, to a man, , rushing to tho support of the colours,) or already engaged in the terrible com diet on the Aisne and the Marne a courage worthy of the field of Agin-|. court. " ' Whereas Germany was led to bclicva that the raco of the days of Cromwell and of Milton had passed away them, it now roappenrs upon tho ,seen®, with all its ancient couragc and virtue^ There is no disguising the fact that the sympathies and hopes of tho' great, mass of English-speaking peoplo ery-, where aro with England and her now, although America is still a warnV: and faithful friend of b/>th these great?, nations, and pledged to absohito neu< Gormany, by its gross and admitted] violation of all treaties in its hostile:, entrance upon Belgium soil, was first lib) the field—but England had had full-, warning of what-the nature of tho coming contest would be, to which her Government and people might well have given moro instant and constant heed.

AMERICANS IN CANADIAN CON«i" ' TINGENT. ~ | (Rec. January 15, 7.10 p.m.) ' Fremantle, January 15. Y Mr. Sawyer, a'representative of Anieiw ican and Canadian railway companies, t is a passenger by the Moldavia. liH tervicwed, he declared that already sixty thousand Americans had volunteered fory, service with the Allies, hut the Gov-j eminent had stepped in and prevented' them from doing so. At least nine! thousand, however, crossed the bordeK and enlisted with Canadian contingents.'

Dean Inge, of St. Paul's, addressed' : 3000 troops at a special service at Cain; ' : terbury Cathedral. "I believe it isj truo," ho said, "that General Joffre-' said the other day publicly that th&British Army had saved France, and! that the French, who nro .a generous people, would never forgot it. Henceforward wo shall have in our old rivals , ; and closo neighbours the fastest friends that tlio country ever had. If Franco and Britain went down thore would he an end of freedom for tlio Old World." The Gorman soldiers rotreating from' Poland carried with them a largo number of Polish girls, many of whom, to ■-! save themselves from tlio unwelcome at- : lention of the Huns, resorted to making up as old beggar-women. Pistols wore first brought into Eiib< land from Pistoja, a town i» Italy. 15 ■ .1520. > - n"