DESTRUCTION OF GERMANY

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 August 1917, Page 3

DESTRUCTION OF GERMANY

SIR ERIC GEDDES CONFIDENT LONDON, July 8. In returning thanks for his election unopposed for the Cambridge Borough seat, Sir Eric Geddes, the new First Lord of the Admiralty, paid a tribute to the war efforts of the British, railway men, who, he said, had given the armies power of movement which had hitherto been unattainable. Light guage railways were now superseding munition waggons. Nothing mattered except the prosecution of the war and the destruction of Germany's power which was being achieved to a g reater extent since the spring than some imagined. The morale of the German army was declining fast. Sir Eric Geddes added that he did not intend to interfere with naval strategy, but merely to supply the needs of the fleet.