The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
Was Caused by. Peryerse Court,
Says Viscount Bryce.
Noted British Statesman Lauds
U. s. in London Speech.
united COMMAND ESSENTIAL
Is Message of Admiral Sims at
Same Meeting.
ave Have 10 Million More
Men," Says General Biddle.

London, July Am opening the
meeting in Central hall, Viscount
Bryce, who presided said:
For many a year today was cele-
brated in the United States with hos
tility and defiance. By us in Britain
it was remembered with sorrow as
marking the severance of precious
| ties And now, after one hundred and
forty-two years it is being celebrated
by both peoples with like enthusiasm
by the children of those who revolt
ed against the British crown as by the
children of those who sadly admitted
the loss of one of that crowns choicest
| Jewels. What has been a day of anger
on one side and grief on the other has
become for both day of affection and
| rejoicing"
IF some political connection had
been preserved" said Viscount Bryce,
.the war of 1912, unmiXed evil for
| both nations, would have been avoid
| ed and tho the colonies would have
become practically seif-governing ike
Canada, the mediation of the mother
country probably would have averted
| the war of secession and assured the
peaceable extinction of slavery.
Revolution a Good Thing.
ION the other hand" he continued
at may have been we'll for US aud the
world that no state SO powerful as
Great Britain and America united
would have been should have grown
| up. A state SO immensely strong
might have led into aggression and
| injustice by thirst for world dominion
| "a passion whose fatal consequences
were in the moral degradation of Prus-
| sianized Germany"
Brought on by Autocratic King.
Viscount Bryce said that the bitter
ness of 1875 never could have arisen
had the will of the British LeopIe
ruled them. as it rules today. The
| severance came" he declared, "be-
cause we had then a perverse court
and non-representative parliament.
| America Answers Call of Duty.
"Englishmen scarcely yet realized
| the new departure America took when
| she entered the war but" he con-
| tinued, when America saw every
principle of right overridden, every
sentiment of humanity cast to the
| winds. America strobe forth in her
strength. Duty calledaon her to save
| the world, and she answered the call
| of duty.
Americans Come as Crusaders.
while in American cities the older
men have been watching with breath
| less anxiety for every report along the
| cable from the imperiied front in
| France, we see the young soldiers of
! America come swarming over the
ocean in an ever growing host, which
| begins to be counted by millions
They come with the passion of cru
saders eager to bear the shock of bat
| tie in sacred cause.
| Drawn Closer Together.
'"The new world has come to re-
dress the balance of the old. Its fresh
and fiery spirit has the promise of
victory. This spirit this zeal to serve
I nj Oh of
mon duty and common purpose; these
| per1ls which the American and Brit
ish soldiers, citizen armies drawn
from the people, are facing side by
side, all this has brought Great Bril-
tain and America closer than ever
| they were under one government be-
fore that far off day of independence
which we are celebrating here.
Together VIII Save World.
'Now these things will be the sur
est pledge of affection and co-opera-
| ton in the future stretching before US
as far as human thought can reach
| Britain and America, to quote and
adapt the famous words of Pitt have
| altogether led the world for freedom
| by their example. Together they will
| their eXertions."
Admiral Sims Speaks.
Remarking that the press had en-
phasized the fact that American troops
had been brigaded with the British
| and French, Admiral Sims said he
wanted to call attention to the fact
| that for nearly a year all the Ameri-
can naval forces in European waters
had been brigaded with British and
| other allied forces. A majority of the
destroyers from the United States had
| been serving under the military direc-
ton of a British admiral for more
| than year. Others were serving with
/ the Births! in the Mediterranean.
| Many destroyers and other vessels
! were under French command and sub
marine chasers were in the Adriatic
and American dreadnaughts had been
! serving under the commander in chief
| of the grand fleet.
Units of Command Essential.
| "It is unnecessary" said Admiral
Sims, ito state that the reason for
! this has no connection with the COM
I petence of the admirals to direct their
| own forces. From the very beginning
It was established as an inflexible
| direction was prime requisite for
success"
$50 o. S. Ships to Europe.
| The American forces, he declared.
were small compared to the united
naval forces, but they had performed
| their duties 70 tie satisfaction of their
supreme commanders. Americas
! naval were NOT at al emu
/ tho she has in the European waters
| ESQ ships, 5000 officers and 10000
men serving in all the European areas
from the Adriatic to the White sea-
In the coming year more tn n three
times the present number destroy
ers will be fighting with the allies
and more than $50 submarine chasers
/ will be in the war zone. More than
| half of them are here now.
Getting Best of SubmaHn
The submarine campaign has been
met the admiral asserted. AT
| the present time the allies are sinking
| s1l bna riues faster than thew are being