BRITAIN’S EFFORTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1918, Page 3

BRITAIN’S EFFORTS.

Speaking recently at the National Press Club at Washington, cx-Prosi-dont. Taft paid the highest tribute to Great Britain’s efforts in the la st four years. “The work Great Britain has done in the war,” he. said, “is sorne--thing we cannot appreciate or estimate. We are living in comfort and luxury and have lost comparatively few men. We ha\> not been in trio Valley of the Shadow of Dentil as Great Britain has been, and to us who owe our liberty to Britain I mean liberty in the sense of midcrstandino what real constitutional liberty is we who have inherited that liberty which has been hammered by a thousand years of struggle, may well have that "filial affection for Britain, and that filial admiration for her in the struggle she has now been carrying on four years, giving her life-blood and treasure on our behalf ns well as on behalf of the rest of the world. British rid the world of the greatest military conqueror the world ever saw, aiul did it by sacrifice and holding ’Hie spirit 'of the British lion and the British bulldog remained in those who were left, and in the end St Helena told th 0 story of British pertinacity and British determination to stand up for civilisation and against the tyranny of the world domination, and her function in this war is the same. We in this country ow P it to her to have, her know that we nre at the hack of her and our Allies in this fi.rht to the end and those who, by insinuation against Britain, whatever they intend, nre traitors in effect. When we aro fighting together with one another we stand by them. If we uon’t wo don’t know what, fighting is, wo have not the game spirit, and we don’t understand the object.”