The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-09
ST. PAUL HERE WITH
BOOSTER OF BRITAIN
Prof. Gayley Says Kipling ana
Others in London Are
Not DOwncast.
STAND WITH MIR. WILSON

Charles Mills Gayley. professor OF
English literature at the University OF
California. who arrived last night from
Liverpool by the American liner ~.
Paul, went to England about a year ago
TO make himself familiar with the haunts
of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan
poets for the purposes OF getting local
color for a book treating of that period.
He was diverted from his subject by the
war.
what" he asked his interviewers, is
4cO-year.old stuff now compared with
the greatest crisis in the worlds hiss
tory?'
The professor, who belongs TO several
London clubs. havins spent much time
there at different periods IN his search
for literary material. was put up at
the Atheneum by Henry James and met
the literary lights of London, including
kudyard Kipling. The feeling among
the British writers is strong for the
attitude of America and President VIII
son in the war. he said, and the nope IS
that the United States will keep out of
It.. pursuing the same policy she is fol-
lowing now.
He told his British friends that no
knew President Wilson personally and
that they could depend upon 1t thst the
President would stick u the policy exc
pressed IN his first and his latest notes
to Germany as he WAS distinctly not tIe
sort of a man to go back on his pledge.
Charles Graves. hrnther-in-law Of sir
Edward Grey. greeted Prof. GaNley with
f.rvor. expressing his delight t. meet a
man from the country that had done 30
much for Belgium and-diplomaticallv
| l,r,,l Neutrality-suspicious. .fsa fl 81 NnFeAn
the lot of English prisoners in Germany
Mr.. Graves's son was one of thirty
nine Rritons held for repriSJl In Case
the English should have executed any
German submarine prisoners. The youns
man had been missing and WAS found
through the efforts of the American En-
baSSy at Berlin.
Prof. Gaylcy said his conversation
with members Of we'll known clubs. 1t
erary and social, o. England, convinced
him that the success Of the Tcutons IN
Russia had merely caused a renewal of
British determination 10 push the war 20
a finish. There would he no early peace.
and the pact among the Allies TO make
no peace except collectively would not
be violated by any Of them.
Miss Edna Goodrich also arrived h.
the ST. Paul. She said she had been a
Fed Cross nurse seven weeks in Bel
GUM and then had gone t. France with
the hope OF nursing there, hut found
that only trained nurses were accepted.
She said the French We're "fghting like
mad and that she believed In them
She Is going n California To- act in tho
movies for six weeks
capt. Eugene Delk OF the American
steamship Leelanaw. which WAS to-
pedoed ny a German submarine on july
2s. arrived with twenty-siX members OF
his crew.
The Lselaraw was on her way from
A~rchangel TO Belfast when the sub.
marine got her. one Of her crew was
arrested and sent Ia prison for denying
his German nationality, and anothei
= German elected to remain aboard tn.
submarine and fight 'or his country
4 Capt. Dclk said he had told his story
I on the other side and could add nothing
TO II. He was met Al Quarantine hN
|, representatives Of the owners Of t.,
L@elanaw.