Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-06
LORD NORTHCL|FFE LAUDs
GREATARMY OF AMERICA
Germans Called 1t Mob in Uni.
form, but Now Know
Better.
HAS FAITH IN AIR PROGRAM
British Editor Believes United States
Will Turn Out Thousands of Air
planes-Scores Paciflsts, and Says
Peace Should Be Made in Berlin.
10y International News Bureau. ]
DY LORD NORTHGLIEEE.

landed on the continent in the task OF
assisting little Belgium and great and
gallant France in their fight for civili-
cation. AZ speedily afterwards as pos
sibie came the crusaders from the far,
lar south, whose deeds at Galiipoli will
always be cnshrined in our language.
Equally speedily flew to arms the
Canadians from the Pacific to the At
.antic. from Klondikc to Cape Breton.
There came the Observation-Disclosures. too.
1t has t"en my happy lot TO have spent
much time in Canada and Newfound-
iand. ! have not: unfortunately. been
to Australia or New Zealand. but
could scarcely believe that ut the out
break of war men who had often talked
and written freely and amusingly about
me quickest opportunity OF coming TO
help that old country in the greatest
struggle 1t has ever had or ever can
have.
sea to this Country is one Of the most
,n,9vins: touching things in history.
mat they did, at Gallipoli and Vimy.
me INC american boys have been doing at
made OF exactly the same stun.
When saw them in their great
SANDS last year I'm America / had very
ltiie doubt that they would prove to
be the goods"
People said that such polyglot army
would lack cohesion. But. on the other
mar RAND, hear from friends at the Ameri-
!sh. Scottish. Welsh and Irish vie TO
prove their sallantry and devotion. SO
90 these men OF mixed Municipalities in
nc cnited states desire 20 show that
me CZec!i Is as good as the Irishmau
mat the Swedish American is as good
as The New Englander.
hat me Germans called Il mob in
UNIFORM has proved TO be an entirely
new anu most efficient kind of army
81 l diiate a little on the American
d hIaI 1t Is because al this space OF
nave not been in that vast country ~
ieahze, TO Visualize. the effort now taxi
ing place there. am not so lately re-
~ ~ as Lord Reading, TO whom much
-. me cohesion which exists between
inc British and American governments
80 oue. 1 diiate upon this American Of
Tin; TIN because these words VIII go In the
ne "spaDer into Germany in n
10y re" days. I think Il wise thar
whs, as as wei as ourselves should know
Ia 80. iies IN the womb OF the future I'm
'egard TO the United States "
engines alone f'" Oh az
10 nfaiere that air engines will large
~ ,neip TO end the wa:
Eot the combined outDut os ,..r,,.
austria, not the whole OF tho Pri,
.an empire. has the same possibiIitv ~
air anrin psoauc.ion IN such matters as
~ ines rs the United States one
I'm; -; me men who is making these mir en-
tiucin,, o my, one OF many. is actually pro.
Thns enery day 800 motor cars.
ne americans. after certain, trn,,h,.s
t.at we nave all had have noy rr
Iucea their wonderful Liberty n,l Pro.
be proan nmow nov many thousands viii
ee told what they do prod,,c,. ~
~ cans are lighting 4 pubIi. 49,
~ u secret war. II cst!nIai. ia;
50 ,,1 ai p:oauce 10000 month. do
- utter having visited n great uiaI,y
places where they are made. ''''"s
Aa 70 men, surely one or the cre.,
m s ,s OF the world is the TRANSPORT
o, those men. And not onl,. The w..
transport. In which We hnvc jar.nt'
snarhd but think OF the land ,rannnor,.
ne railroad handling or these iroons
49, ~ itseil a great achievement. |; has
oeeh done with order and astoundinc
puhctuality and far in advance Of ths
bronIseS made by the United states
government
liz regard 10 food Mr. Hoov.r to,,
me yesterday that they nave raised
i.a.Oo0'Oou hogs this year An that is
me result not of commercialism. FOR
s s,a mas disappeared in the United
GATES during the war, but OF the de-
SIRE OF every kind OF person in the
United States to help the allies.
me enthusiasm OF all these people
the enthusiasm OF children in this mat,
ter OF food production. was to me n
most stimulating thought. as | watched
u going on last year.
Lately the Americans have achieved
something which l thought was almost
Impussi b!c.
They have never been since the days
OF the Old Atlantic clippers d great
come one In single year. They are
turning out every kind of ship at a
speed unprecedented i'll history. Thei,
government IS frank with them about
the war, aDd that. think, has had a
good deal To do with the acccleration
OF shipbuilding.
GREAT BHITtIN'S UNKNOWN
EFFORT COMMENTED UPON
Until tho United States came into the
war and for some time after that NC
n ards hn
effort OF the allies by Unprecedented
advances OF money TO them. l say that
IN no boastinG spirit, but because r
think 1t ought to be known. Apart
from the magnitude and supreme GILL
cheney of our feet. VIC have done very
great things in this war. Yet our ef-
Just now. in the United states this is
public war; to US this is private
war
During the FIRST few months OF the
and notorious and now absent Ger
man member OF the Privy Council.
hardly any ono knew anything about
tho facts of the war. There WAS not
even military communicate. When 1
was III America there came 10 me a
very able young statesmen, Mr.. llol'
man. the Prime Minister of New South
Wales. When Mir. Holman landed the
reporters. with the pcrtinacity OF that
tribe TO which ] am proud TO belong, |
assailcd him by saying: Have not You
AuStTallanS uonc enough. is ~ not
limo the British began to hght?" Mr..
1iolman on every possible occasion gave
the exact figures OF the comba tants
sent to France and elsewhere by Great
Britain. by Australasia and by Can
ada.
| happen to read the German wire
less very often. 1t is not published eX-
cept to little scraps. What is the
elm ,S that wireless, which goes to all
neutral countries, a daily budget Of
propaganda? 1t points out that. though
it may be true that we have ra Used an
immense force, our men have done
little fighting. For some reason or
other the best possible proof of what
we have done is not permitted by the
censor TO be known to us or our al
lies. I have had sufficient trouble with
the censor already. and do not pro-
pose TO do more than estimate in what
] am going to say now. The reply to
our statement that we have enlisted
100000 men is Yes, but how many
casualties have you had" Now, the
Germans know to u man our casualties.
Our casualties are published in n
sort OF way as those Of the Germans.
we get tho German casualty quite cas-
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