BRITAIN'S EFFORT IN THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 119, 13 February 1919, Page 6

BRITAIN'S EFFORT IN THE WAR

In connection with the King's visit to Paris, the. "Matin" paid the following tribute to the magnitude of Britain's effort in the war: "King George is the head of a people who have raised more than 7,000,000 men for the defence of right. He is Supreme Commander of a Fleet without which we should have lost the war from its earliest weeks, and which, during four years of stern fighting against submarine warfare, maintained tile-supremacy of the Entente on all the world's seas. It is to this Elect that the arrogant squadrons, on which rested the Vmbridled ambition of the Hohenzollerns, have had humbly to surrender. Throughcnt every hour of this gigantic war, in the darkest hour as well as in those bright with hope. England has been by our side, accomplishing in silence her tremendous task, sending us uncounted men, guns, and munitions: endowing us with enormous credits, furnishing us with coal, of which the enemy's attack had deprived us, and transporting to our shores the Americai armies. The mutual | debt of the two peoples The British have neglected no occasion nobly to recognise what they owe to our , 'loiliis and their leaders. Let us not Irsilate on our side In proclaim that our Kiatitud* towards this great Empire is iniinilc."