A TRIBUTE TO THE BRITISH

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 14 November 1918, Page 6

A TRIBUTE TO THE BRITISH

A leading article- in the Philadelphia "Public Ledger" of recent date pays a generous tribute to the efforts and sacrifices niado- by Great Britain in tho war. "We all knew the stuff of which Old England was made," says the journal. "What she has done in this warquietly, unboastingly as is her wonthas surprised no one who knew English character, English stamina, and English history.' . • • The doom of Germany s despotic ambition was sealed on the day that Britain's councillors wheeled ■ that nation into line with the forces of freedom. England was no more a military nation than America' whon the war began. She learned to fight by fightingand dying. AVe are profiting to-day by her tragic experience. • Thousands or American lads will come home to us alive and whole because .thousands a owr blood-brothers from (he British Isles havo been killed and mutilatedaiul have tmight us how to escape, lho Briton is a dour fighter, and knows no . '•ml to a struggle save victory or death. He never fights a limited liability wnr -he goes in with liis whole soul. Ibe day that British khaki appeared upon the. battlefields of France it was decreed that there could be but one of two ends to this conflict-the colliwse «.t the Hntish Empire or tho final failure of Ge - many's dream of world ionniwß l. Bit no one, save the German Department to known or «« w» When « Nidation the Bri feh "re the poorest advertisers the world has ever seen." ,