The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13

He expressed the belief that the Ger
 mans and their military advisers were
 beginning to realize that this was an- other of their miscalculations which
 would lead them to disaster and ruin. Of
 Americas part in the war the premier said:
 Tt was a bad day for the military autocracy in Prussia when it challenged the great republic of the west. We know America and we also know that now she
 has said it, she will do it. She will wage a strong and successful war. and, there
 is something more important, she will ensure beneficient peace.'
 Probably no event celebrated in Eng
 land in the present genera ton unofficial ly brought together more men of great prominence than this luncheon. The Pill grims dinner had more of military air,
 with large patches of khaki and navy blue at the tables. Among those present at
 the luncheon were: The Canadian
 premier Sir Robert l.. Borden. General
 Sir William Robertson, chief of the i'm
 perial staff; Admiral Lord Beresford, the
 Archbishop of Canterbury; Chief Justice
 Reading; Sir Edward Carson, first lord of the admiralty: Lord Derby. minister
 of war; bishop. the Right Rev c. 1T.
 Brent of the Philippines; the lord chan
 cellor; Admiral Jellicoe, first sea lord; 1;
 Admiral Meux, Rudyard Kipling, Gen eral Christopher Addison. minister of munitions Waldorf Astor, Lord Burn
 helm, J. Austin Chamberlain, Winston Spencer Churchill, the Marquis of Crewe,
 Lord Davenport, food controller; Sir
 Arthur Conan Doyle, , Andrew Fisher,
 Australian high commissioner; Sir Rider
 Haggard, Viscount Hardinge, J. Douglas
 Hazeen, Canadian minister of marine and
 fisheries; General Shuts, Surgeon Gen. eral Sir Alfred Keogh, Walter Hume
 Long, colonial secretary; William F. Mas
 sey, premier of New Zealand; Sir Ed
 ward Morris. premier of Newfoundland;
 Sir George Perley, Canadian high com
 missioner, American Consul General Rob-
 ert P. Skinner Herbert C. Hoover, and
 other members of the American commits
 sion for relief in Belgium; the South
 African high commissioner, the Arch
 bishop of York, Vice Chancellor Strong of Oxford and Vice Chancellor Fitzpatrick of Cambridge.
 MAY ABOLISH WAR "Today we are waging one of the most devastating that the world has ever seen. Tomorrow, tomorrow. not perhaps distant to- morrOws. war may be abolished forever from the category of hu- man crimes. rms may De some thing like that fierce Outburst of winter which we are now witness ing before we complete the time of the summer.
 NIt is written of those gallant Nmen who won that victory on MOn- day from Canada. from Australia and from this cOuntry-it has proved that in spite of its age 1t 1t not discrepit-it is written of those gallant men that they at- tackled at dawn. Fitting work for the dawn--to drive out of 40 miles of French soil those miscreants attacked with the dawn. It is significant phrase.
 ssWith 1t there came the break 1 ing up of the dcsp0tism of Tur- key, who has for centuries acted as a cloud to sunniest lands fin the world. It has fre<e all Russia from an oppression which has cov- cred 1t like shrOud for so long. And there is the great declaration l of President Wilson. The great nations represented in the struggle 1 for freedom, they are the heralds | of the dawn. They attacked with l the dawn, and those men are marching forward in the full | radiance of that dawn. and soon ] Frenchmen and Americans. British | and Russians. aye. Servians and Belgians, MOntenegrins and Ru- manians will emerge into the full | light of perfect day"