The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-28
BY ROY w. HOWARD.
president of the United Press Asso-
ciafioUSA

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Copyright 1916 by the United Press) |
copyrighted in Great Brittany
London, Sept. 2S.-There is no end
of the war in sight. Any step at this
time by the United States, the vatican
or any other neutral in the direction
of peace would be xconstrued by Eng
land as an unneutral, pro-German
move.
The United Press is able to make
these statements on no less authority
than that of the British man of the
hour, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George,
secretary of state for war.
Britain has only begun to fight;
the British empire has invested thou
| sands of its best lives to purchase fu-
ture immunity for civilization; this in
vestment is too great to be thrown
away was the Welsh statesman's
size-up of the situation.
More than at any time since the
| beginning of the war there is evil
| dence thruout England of a popular
suspicion toward America. a suspicion
that did not exist a year ago. This
feeling appears directly attributable to
the notion generally entertained by
| the man on the streets that President
Wilson might be induced to butt in
for the purpose of stopping the Euro
pean war. A similar suspicion of
spain and the vatican is also mani
| fest
British Good Sportsmen.
Lloyd George was asked to give in
the simplest possible language the
British attitude toward the recent
peace talk.
Simple language" he inquired with
a half smile. Then he thought mo-
ment.
derstood wherever English is spoken"
he replied. II am quite sure they
will be understood in America.
well, then, the British soldier is
good sportsman. He enlisted in this
war in the sporting spirit-the best
sense of that term. He went in to
see fair play to small nation tramp
led upon by a bully He is fighting
| for fair play in international dealings.
He has fought as a good sportsman by
the thousands. He has died like a
sportsman. He has never asked any
thing more than sporting chance
and hasn't always had that. When
he could not get it, he didn't quit. He
played the game He didn't squeal
and certainly he never asked anyone
to squea1 for him.
The secretary for war, who looks,
acts and talks more like an American
business man than any other English
man in public life now, speaking real
United States with scarcely any trace
of the usual British intonation of ac-
cent, continued:
Took His Punishment Then.
Under the circumstances. the Brit
ish, now that the fortunes of the game
nave turned a bit, are not disposed to
stop because of the squealing done by
the Germans, or for the Germans, by
probably well-meaning but misguided
sympathjzers and humanitarians. For
two years the British soldier had a
! bad time-no one knows so we'll as he
what bad time it was. He was sadly
inferior in equipment. On the aver
age he was inferior in training. He
saw the allied cause beaten all about
the ring, but he did not appeal to
either TIE spectators or referee to
| stop the fight on the ground that 1t
was brutal nor did he ask to have the
rules changed. He took his punish
ment. Even when beaten like a dog,
, he was a game dog. When forced to
take refuge in a trench. when too
badly used up to carry the fight to
the enemy he hung on without whin-
ing. fought off every attack. bided his
| time, endured without wincing, work
ed without Tagging
| Lloyd Georges eyes snapped as sit.
ting at his desk in the war office, he
tilted back his chair and studied the
ceiling as if seeing there a picture o1
Tommy's game fight in the early
stages of the contest.
'And at this time, under these con.
ditions what was the winning German
doing?" he asked
Germany Chose Finish Fight.
WAS he worrying over the terrible
slaughter? He was talking of annex
, ing Belgium and Poland as a result
! of his victory and while he was re
? making the map of Europe withou
: | the slightest regard for the wishes o
it's people the British people were pre-
9 pairing to pay the price we knew mus
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