The Matamata Record THURSDAY, DECEMBERS, 1918 A TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 109, 5 December 1918, Page 2

The Matamata Record

THURSDAY, DECEMBERS, 1918 A TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN

The. Pnly Paper published "in the Matamata County .;;, . Published every Thursday -Office Tower Road P.O. Box 38 f 'Phone 82

A LEADING article in the Philadelphia 'Public Ledger' of re. cent date pays a generous tribute ~, to the efforts and sacrifices madeby Oreat Britain in the war. ' " We all knew the stuff of which Old England was made," says the journal. "What she has done . in this . war—quietly, unboastingly, as is her wonWhas sur- ,. prised no one who knew English character, English stamina, and 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 when the war began. She learned to fight by fighting—and dying. We are profiting today by her tragic experience. Thousands Of American lads will come home to us alive and whole because thousands of our bloodbrothers from the British Isles have been killed and mutilated, And have taught us how to escape. The Briton is a dour fighter, and-knows no end to a struggle! save victory or death. He never fights a limited liability war; he goes in with his whole soul. The day that British khaki appeared upon the battlefields of France it was decreed that there could be but one of two ends of this conflict—the collapse $ of the British Empire or the final failure of Germany's dream of world conquest. But no one, save the German Intelligence department, has known or ever will know half of what Britain has done.. When it comes to self•laddaiion:4he British are the poorest'advertisers the world has ever seeh7'