New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

you desire to express the deep obliga
ton that America owes to tho Brtsf
Empire, and above all to the British
navy, which, in defending the empire
during the first two and one-balf years
OF the war. before we had entered 1t,
saved us from the fate of Belgium, and
which since then has transported and
protected two-thirds of our army which
went TO Europe. We must show our
sense of obligation in n practical man
her at the peace table, where America
must make solid front with her allies,
for our debt is great to the British
navy and to the French, Belgian. ltal-
ian, Serbian and other Allied armies.
"The peculiar position and the vital
needs Of the British Empire render it
imperative that her navy should be the
first in the world, and hope ours will
be second In similar fashion France
and Italy must meet military needs
greater than ours, and 1T is our duty TO
back up Great Britain in securing for
her the naval position her needs de-
mand; to back up France, Italy and our
other allies in whatever position they
feel as regards armament, their pc
culiar military necessities obllgc them
to take.
"Thc United States, fortunately, has
! no idNOI 10 dSh tNCcPt tHdS We S'e''
continue to be ourselves the sole
guarantors of the Monroe Doctrine on
I this continent and the sole defenders OF
/ the Panama Canal. which we built with
/ our money and which we obtained the
chance to build by giving to the Repub-
/ lie of Panama the right of Self-deter-
; mination.'
Pilgrims Give Dinner
Secretary McAdoo, Secretary Daniels,
Sir Harry Britain and Arnold Bennett
were among the others who yesterday
telegraphed or cabled to the Britain
Day Committees headquarters in the
Hotel Belmont.
Four hundred members and guests OF
the Pilgrims of the United States, with
SIR Henry Darlington Smith guest
of honor, attended g luncheon yester-
cay in the ballroom of the Rltz-Carl-
ton. Admiral Sir William Lowther
Grant. commander in chief of the Brit
ish naval forces in North America, and
Vice Admiral Albert Gleaves, chief of
the American transport and convoy ser
vice, were among the speakers.
Admiral Grant declared that to chat
thin line of Allied soldiers who bore
the brunt of the first German on
slaught" must go the major praise. but
Admiral Gleaves said that the British
naval power made possible the trans
Iortation of American troops abroad
and that "the work of the British navy
in this war will live longer in history
than we are from Herodotus.
Noyes Praises Washington
Alfred Noyes, English poet, in a stir
ing address which concluded with the
recitation of his poem on Fifth Avenue,
/ THE Avenue of the Allies" told the
National Special Aid Society that one
Of England's greatest days was when
"a certain Englishman, George Wash
ington, with the help of 100000 other
freeborn Englishmen, defeated a Ger
man king and that kings hired Hes
slams; helped draw up the Declaration
of independence and signed that dec
laration along with others whose names
are testimony that they were English
men"
Mr.. Noyes quoted from the writings
and speeches of more than twenty
prominent Enghshmen of the Revolu
tionary period to prove that the better
thought in the Mother Country unal
terably opposed the kings determina-
ton to war on the Colonies. He also
described the work of and read several
charming poems on the 5000 small
English craft that hunted submarines
on the North Sea for four years and
which he called 1.-The traffic policemen of
the ocean,"
Mass Meeting and Pageant
To-day there will be a mass meeting
at the Hippodrome at 2:30 o'clock, when
Samuel Gompers, Charles E, Hughes
and DR.. George (. Vincent will be
among the speakers. A naval pageant
VIII be presented by $50 British sol
ders, and model of H. NJ. S. Vindic
tive. which blocked Zeebrugge, will be
displayed. Sir Henry Darlington Smith,
High Commissioner and Acting Ambas-
sador from Great Britain, will accept
for his country the honors extended.
This evening at the Century Theatre
the spectacle of "Freedom" will be pre-
scented. with the original cast plus Mrs.
Julie Opp Faversham, and with four
hundred persons, depicting twenty-five
historical scenes. A new British war
film, "The Price Of Victory" will be
shown continuously during the after
noon and evening at the Forty fourth
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