"BUT FOR BRITAIN"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 166, 8 April 1919, Page 7

"BUT FOR BRITAIN"

GENERAL PERSIUNG'S GENEROUS TRIBUTE. The following message from General Porshing, Commander in Chief American Expeditionary Foroe, to Judge Alton B. Parker, chairman of the National 'Committee on Arrangement for British Day, New York City, was published by Fir Douglas Haig its a Special Order of (he ■■'"'The achievements of the British F.mpire for humanity arc too manifold to enumerate in a short message. Entering the war to defend the rights of nation?, she has unhesitatingly given her sons and her wealth. Gathered from her loyal Dominions, the men o( the British Empire have carried their victorious eagles over many a bloody, field. Steadfast in adversity," wounded with u 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 thoso of us who have boon associated with them and who fought beside their gallant troops, words of praise seem inadequate, to express our admiration. These things our kinsmen h.w done, and these things have brought an inseparable union between them and ouiselves. "To the British people we extend our thanks for the powerful aid hor Navy his Riven, and oll'er our great respect for the resolute Anglo-Saxon determination with which she has held on. and we offer our right hand of friendship that our two nations may be more firmly linked together lo ensure the future, peace of the world."