Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-12
RIVAL POLITICAL BODIES !.
CAST ASIDE GRIEVANCES
Two Great London Organizations
Jointly Meet in Support of British
Call for Recruits.
Winston Spencer Churchill Says TT
Is Our Life Against Germany'A
With No Compromise OF Truce

LONDON. September 12.-Under the
auspices of the National Liberal and
Constitutional clubs. two great rival
political organizations Of the metro
polls, whose members before tho war
were scarcely on speaking terms. an
enthusiastic meeting was held in the
London Opera House last night in
support of the prime minister's call
for recruits. The chief speakers were
Winston Spencer Churchill. first lord
of the admiralty: F.. f. Smith, director
of the official press bureau. and VIII
Crooks, labor leader in the house of
commons.
TT is too soon to speculate on the
result of the great battle which is
now being waSed in France" said Mr..
Churchill. but everything We have
had during four long days of anxiety
stantial turning of the tide We have
seen the force OF the French and
British armies strong enough NOT only
to contain and check the devastating
avalanche which has swept over the
French frontier, but now for four
long days the enemy has been splep-
did1y rolled back
Confident of Success.
I'm battle taking place on front
OF over 100 or $50 miles one must be
very careful not to build too high
hopes on the results achieved But
when every allowance has been made
for the uncertainty with which great
operations always are enshrouded
over SO great an area, the situation
I tonight is better, far better than the
| cold calculations of the forces avail
| able befofe the war could lead US to
expect in this early stage of the cam
paign. But had this battle been as
disastrous as. thank God it appears
TO be triumphant, l should have come
before you tonight with undated con-
ndence. with a certainty that we have
only to continue our efforts TO bring
| this war to the conclusion which We
wish and intend.
The war has now been in progress
hve or six weeks. In that time we have
swept German commerce from the sea-
All our ships. with inconsiderable ex-
ceptions, are arriving safely and pune.
tually at their destinations, carrying
the commerce upon which the wealth
and industries and power to make war
OF this country depend. We have
transported, not without danger. but
still hitherto safely and successfully,
great numbers of soldiers across the
seas from all quarters of the world to
be directed upon the decisive theater
OF the land struggle. We have swept
the so-called German ocean without
discovering a German flag.
Will Maintain Naval Supremacy.
THE number of battleships that will
| be completed within the next twelve
| months is more than double the mum.
Der that will be completed for Ger
many. and the number of cruisers will
| be three or four times as great There
| fore We may count upon the naval su.
premacy of the country being effective
, ly maintained. 1851
! What we now have to do is to make
! under cover and shield of the navy a
| great army strong enough to enable
the country to take its proper share
| in the decision of this terrible struggle.
To make the assistance OF the empire
effective we should put on the CONT.
nent and keep there an army of At
least one million men,. b..
/ That figure is we'll within the COM
| pass Of arrangements now on foot and
well within the scope of measures
which Lord Kitchener has taken. BY
the new year we will have an addi-
| tfonal half million men ready for the
| field, and by the summer of 1915 we
will have twenty-five army corps in
fighting shape.
| 1T is our life against Germanys
Upon that there must be no compro.
mise or truce. We must go forth un-
! ninchingly o the end"