Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-13
LLOYD GEORGE Halls U. S.
AS COMRADE- !N-ARMS

AS CUMRAUE-!N-ARMS
Continued from First PaGe.)
have made as We generally do. every
blunder. May ! respectfully suggest
that il is worth a good deal to study
our plumbers. so as to begin where we
arc now, not where we were three
years ago.
rho arrangements already under
way for the building OF ships by the
United States appealed strongly to the
. Premier. who declared that the road
to victory, the guarantee of victory,
to be found in the one word ships, and
always ships.
OF Americas part in the war the
Premier said:
1T was a bad day for the military
autocracy in Prussia when it cha llenged
the great republic of the west, We
know America and we also know that
now she has said it she will do 1t.
She will wage Il strong and successful
war and there is something more i'm
por;ant. she will insure bencficcnt
peace"
/ THINKS REAL PEACE
/ WILL He RESULT
Il can see peace coming now," the
I Premier declared lie said it would be
real peace which this old world has
/ nevcr known.
To-day a devastating war was being
wagcd he said. o-morrow-perhaps
not Il distant o-morroY--war might
/ be abolished forever from tho category
! of human crime.
| Lloyd George said II would have been
! q tragedy for mankind If America had
not placed herself i'll position to take
part in the peace conference. with all
the influence and power for right which
she was now winning for herself. Flo
/ said tive United States had helped to
( wil. the battle OF .trras because the
/ machines which made some OF thu
shells which had destroyed the Ger
/ Inau trenches came from America.
Probably no event celebrated in Eng
| land in the present generation unohi-
cially brought together more men Of
| great prominence than this luncheon.
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military air. with large patches Of
khaki and navy blue at the tables.
/ Among those present 1T the luncheon
( were the Canadian Premier. Sir Robert
/ l.. Borden: General Sir William Il. Rob
crtson. chief OF the imperial staff; Nd
mrul Lord Bcrcsfcrd, the Archbishop
Of Canterbury: Chief Justice Reading;
! Sir Edward Carson. First Lord of the
/ Admiralty: Lord Derby. Minister Of
! War: Bishop the ltt. Rev. G.. II. Brent,
/ of the Philippines. the Lord Chancellor:
Admiral Jellicoe. First Sea Lord: Adj
miral MeuN, Rudyard Kiping. DIR.
/ CHRISTOPHER Addison, Minister OF Mu-
mitions; Waldorf Astor. Lord Burnhani,
! J. Austen Chamberlain. Winston Spencer
Churchill. the Marquis OF Crewc: Lord
! Davenport. Food Controller; Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, Andrew Fisher. Aus
| tralian High Commissioner; Sir Rider
/ IIaGEard. Niscount 1IardinHc. j. Doug
las Hazcn. Canadian Minister of Ma
| rinc and Fisheries: General SHUTS. Sur
| geon- General sir Alfred Keogh Walter
! Hume Long. Colonial Secretary: Will
| liam l.. Massey. Premier of New Zea.
land; Sir Edward Morris. Premier OF
I Newfoundia and Cir George Perlcy,
/ Canadian High Commissioner: Amer
lean CONSULT General Robert T.. Skinner.
Herbert c. Hoover. and other members
/ OF the American Commission for Relief
In Belgium: the South African High
/ Commiss Toner. the Archbishop of York,
Vice Chancellor Strong. Of Oxford. and
| Vice Chancellor Fitzpatrick. OF CAM
bridge.
FULL OF SIGNIFICANCE
FOR ALI. TIME TO COME
! The Pilgrims OF Great Britain to-
night gave a dinner in honor Of WAL
ter Hines Page, tho United States am
bassador. Arthur j. Balfour, the Brit
! ish Foreign Secretary. was to have pre-
sided. but owing TO diplomatic affairs
OF state, especially concerning the
United States, he was unable 10 be
present. His place was taken by Wis.,
count Bryce. president of the Pilgrims.
! Among the speakers was .Ambassa-
dor Page, who dealt with the entry
OF the United States into the war, and
! declared that he was stirred to the
depths OF his nature by the American
companionship IN arms with Great
/ britain and her allies. Niscount Bryce
declared that the United states in
quitting the isolation she had cherishe ri
since the days OF Washington, had
taken a step that was full Of signih-
canoe for all time to come. Lord Rob-
7 ert Cecil Minister OF Blockade, said
Great Britain AMI the United States
! through their association would bring
/ greater things for the world.
Much enthusiasm was evinced dur
Ing the speeches over the entry OF the
United States into the war.