The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-03-28
READING BEGS
US. HURRY
British Envoy Arouscs LOtOs
Club by Delivering Pre-
mier's Message.
DINERS MOVED TO TEARS
Amba ssadOr's Address Frank
ly Sets Forth Perils Of
Allied Nations.
DINERS MOVED TO TEARS

While civilization stands at the brink
Of the pit and every tick Of the clock
marks the death Of thousands II Is not
difficult to arouse a great thrill even at a
dinner In a gentlemen's club. At the
Lotos Club last night 400 Americans not
much given to emotionalsm wer. stirred
as never before in their lives when the
dor. delivered Lloyd Georges resolute
message to Amerca-a message which
conta ined perhaps the most pois snant ap-
peal for help that Great Britain has ever
had to make.
This message shook them out OF the
commonpiaces. and when Lord Reading
scarcely able at times to articulate be-
cause OF the emotion that gripped him.
followed the Premier's words with his
own dauntless promise that every British
soldier will die In his tracks before the
Huns can break through. his hearers
cheered as II the news OF d great victory
had rung In their ears, Every man In
the banquet room sprang to his feet
(some So stirred. indeed. that tears
rolled down their cheeks) and shouted
The men nearest Lord Readlng-Gov.
Whitman, Charles E. Hughes. President
frank r. Lawrence OF the club. Presi-
dent Hibben OF Princeton grasped the
hands Of the great Englishman and
wrung them hard. harder perhaps than
they realized in their intensity Of feel
ing
Momentous Address.
The address to which they had lis
tened was momentous one, even in
these days. because It was the most
comprehensive revelation of British
.teadfastness that has been offered per-
haps to the American people since the
war began. 1t was startlingly frank in
the recognition of temporary defeat and
frightful peril on the western front. 1t
contained England's cry for help, a cry
wrung from her. as all understood, by
the peril of civilization rather than her
own. And 1t was crowned with the no.
blest defiance OF Teutonic savagery that
any man in the room remembered to
have heard.
The cablegram from tho British Pre-
mier to his Britannia Maiestys Ambas-
sador Extraordinary and Plenipotenstary
on Special Mission to the United States
the Earl Of Rea ding, will be found else
where This story deals with the eX-
traordinary circumstances OF It's utter
ancc Coming as 1t did It was the clear
est. concisest news and from the high
est official source OF exactly how the
greatest battle Of the world Is going and
it was the most earnest possible appeal
FOR America to hasten her aid There
were men at the LIotos Club last night
who. hearing Lord Reading read that
cab!egram from his Premier. recalled al
most the last words ever spoken by Jo-
aeph II. Choat" in public: For Gods
sake, hurry up
The gentlemen Of the Lotos Club have
entertained In their time the most worthy
Of the worlds great men. but never In
, their brilliant history have they ever
been So eager to offer salutations as they
, were when they rose last night to study
tho thin. intellectual powerful counte-
nance Of him who Is the Lord Chief JUS
iice, special Ambassador and modern
Disraeli the Englishman Of all English
men best understood by Americans per-
| haps. save one. that one alone being
James Bryce.
To honor him they placed him between
two Americans Of the breed they admire.
the Governor and Judge Hughes: and
(ContiRued on Third PG0s.)