The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-03
SHIPPING
 HAS BEEN POOLED
ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE AT LUNCHEON IN LONDON BY
 LORD ROBERT CECIL

London, Sept 3.--Lord Robert Cecil, assistant secretary of state for for eien affairs, at a dinner tonight eel ebrating the conclusion of the delib- erations of the allied maritime trans port council in London, made an i'm portant announcement respecting the pooling of allied shipping He alluded to the pooling of allied food supplies and of allied munitions. Incidentally Lord Robert paid warm tribute to Walter Hines Page, the retiring am bassador from the United States to the court of St. James, who, he said, had done so much to assist the allied cause.
 The following are salient passages from the speech of Lord Robert
 The allied maritime and. transport council was established last December lat a meeting of all the allies. It has grown and it's organization has been completed, but its central principle re- mains what it always was, the neces- sity of allied control for allied supplies.
 W v iihNt 0ttl fAbtAN nluNil lU tIttt us. But that is no reason for dimin- ished effort but rather for increased effort Now is the time to strike T definite and final blow at our enemies. As far as the actual fighting is con cerned that is in other hands, and in hands which give us no anxiety We have profound confidence in our ar mics and our commanders.
 Tn order to feed our armies, apart from our civilian population, we have got to pool all our resources; we must bring together the whole economic strength of our allies. The accom- plishment of that task is not so easy.
 In this, and in many other matters, we are fighting under certain disad- vantage. Our enemies have been con tent to enslave themselves to the Ger man gneral staff That gives them a certain unity of control. certain per lection of machinery which 1t is diff ficult for us to initiate.
 Now. speaking as an IGnglshmsn, am quite confident that some of our allies have suffered more than others We have not had to undergo the ordeal of invasion 1 agree most fully that in many respects the sufferings of France and Italy, not to speak of tho smaller allies, such as Belgium have been greater than our own, greater than those of our friends in Amer ica. But that makes all the more ne.- cessary the pooling of our resources. If our sacrifices are to be in any de- gree equal. the only solution Is com mon allied control of all resources of the allies
 The key of allied control is allied shipping
 The principal organization for which we are pressing is control of allied shipping and complete examina- ton and control of allied needs and also of allied resources to supply those needs It is the coordination of the allied needs and allied resources with allied shipping which would make an overwhelming economic power of the alliance to which we all belong.
 We have done a great deal II Isl we'll that everybody should know, evenI that our enemies should know howl much we have done. The best exam pie of our effort in the matter of alliodI need and supply has been the wheat executive. It has done wonderruil work. Not many months ago there were many of us who were feeling al ieep anxiety about the maintenance ,f the food supplies of the allied nal ions