BRITAIN'S PART IN THE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3149, 30 July 1917, Page 5

BRITAIN'S PART IN THE

WAR THE GREAT PURVEYOR TO THE ALLIES CANNOT BE STARVED INTO SUBMISSION • (Bee. July 29, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, July 28. . ill'. Lloyd George, addressing a gathJ ering of journalists, outlined Britain's efforts on behalf of the Alliance. "The' Kaiser at tlio start of the war," «.e said,: "referred to the 'contemptible little British Army,' 'but we raised half a millio.ii Bailors and live and a half millions of soldiers/' He paid a tribute to the helff the American .Navy had given, •with it* fast destroyers and organising convoys.l Britain was snowing activity in building: merchant ships to replace those destroy-' ed. The programme for 1918 comprised,! four million tons instead of two million:' tons built in a good year in. peace time.; He emphasised that apart from the 5W million soldiers raised by Britain, about a million had responded to the Mother Country's call from the Dominions and ; colonies. These figures were astounding! whon considered in conjunction, with 4hai British position as the great transporter and purveyor to the Allies. _ A Britishers were engaged in mining, apart from the production of food. The only labour permitted in Britain to-day labour of national importance for the; war. He. could state quite definitely that Britain could not be starved into submission. The submarine warfare could • not put her out of business.—Aus.-NX Cable Assn.