Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-11-20
GEORGE BREAKS
RULE; APPEARS
BEFORE HOUSE
Of PARLIAMENT
Speaks of Inviolate British
Soil-Lauds Navy and
Army-Praises Am eri-
cans-Gives All Honor to
Britain's Battleships and
Hastily But Efficiently
Organized Soldiery.
tRepubIican A. p. Leased Wlrel


LONDON, Nov. 19.-Another preee
dent went the way of other preeedents
today, when King George, accompanied
by Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales,
went to the palace at Westminster to
receive and reply to the loyalty ad
dress, passed by parliament yesterday.
Heretofore, it had been the custom of
the parliament to go to the king on such
occasions. The royal party drove to the
palace without escort and was loudly
cheered along the route.
Arriving at Westminster, the king,
the queen and the Prince of Wales went
Immediately to the gallery of the house
Of lords, where the commoners and the
lords, the latter with the officials of
the houses in their robes of office,
awaited them. The king was in morn
ing dress. The lord chancellor and the
speaker of the house of commons pre-
sented the addresses.
King George, after expressing his
thanks, alluded to the part played by
the whole empire in the "long and ter
rible struggle now being brought to
close"
Britain Is Inviolate
King George in expressing his thanks
to the house of lords and the house Of
commons said he was glad to meet the
members Of parliament and the repre-
sentatives of India and the dominions
beyond seas that we may render
thanks to Almighty God for the promise
Of a peace, now nearer at hand, and that
l may express to you and through you
to the people whom you represent the
thoughts that rise in my mind at time
so solemn
After struggle longer and far more
terrible than any one could have fore
told" King George continued, 1.-The soil
OF Great Britain remains inviolate. Our
navy has everywhere held the seas, and
wherever the enemy could be brought
to battle it has renewed the glories of
Drake and Nelson. The incessant work
it has accomplished in overcoming the
hidden menace of the enemy's subma-
rines and in guarding the ships that
have brought food and munitions to our
shores, has been less conspicuous but
equally essential to success.
Praises American Men
without that work Britain might
have starved and those valiant soldiers
of America, who have so much con-
tributed to our victory, could not have
fought their way hither. The fleet has
enabled us to win the war. In fact,
without the fleet, the struggle could
not have been maintained, for upon the
command of the seas the very existence
and maintenance of our land forces
have from the first depended
That we should have to wage this
war on land, had scarcely entered our
thoughts, until the storm actually
broke upon US. But Belgium and France
were suddenly invaded, and the>nation
rose to the emergency. Within a year
an army of more than ten times the
strength of that which was ready for
action in August, 1914, was raised by
voluntary enlistment, largely owing to
the organizing genius and personal in
fluence of Lord Kitchener, and the
number of that army was afterwards
far more than doubled.
These new soldiers, drawn from the
civil population, have displayed a valor
equal to that of their ancestors. Short
as was their training, they have imi-
tated and rivaled the prowess of the
small but ever famous force which in
the early weeks of the war, from Mons
to the Marine, fought its magnificent
retreat against vastly superior num-
bers.
lauds Dominion's Troops
mot less prompt was the response
and not less admirable the devotion tC
the common cause of those splendid
troops which eagerly fastened to us
from the dominions overseas-men who
showed themselves more than ever tC
he bone of our bone, inheriting all the
courage and tenacity that have made
Britain great. l shall ever remember
how the princes of India rallied to the
cause. and with what ardor the soldier.
sustained, in many theaters of the war
and under conditions most divertinf
and exacting, the martial traditions o.
the race"
Proceeding. the king paid tribute t.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. to tht