The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-13
KING GEORGE
CONCRATUkATES
ALLIED TROOPS
Expresses Pride at Achieve
ment Of Fighting Forces and
Union of Empire.
lny As.oclated Press,

LONDON, Nov. 49, King George
has sent messages of congratulation
to the empire, the allies and the fight
ing forces. TO the empire he says
AT the moment when the armistice
was signed, bringing. trust, final
end to the hostllities, which have con-
vulsed the whole world for more than
four years. desire to send a message
OF greeting and heartfelt gratitude to
my overseas peoples, whose wonderful
effort and sacrifices have contributed
SO greatly to secure victory.
Together we have borne the siren
uous burdens in the fight for justice
and liberty. Together we can now re-
joice In the realization Of those great
aims for which we entered the strug-
gle. The whole empire pledged its
word not to sheath the sword until
our end was achieved. That pledge is
now redeemed.
THE outbreak of the war found the
whole empire one. rejoice to think
that the end of the struggle finds the
empire still more closely united by
common resolve, held firm through all
vic'ssitudes, by suffering and sacrifice,
by dangers and triumphs shared to-
gether.
The hour Is one of solemn thanks
giving and of gratitude to God. whose
divine providence has preserved us
through all p&-ils and crowned our
arms with victory. Let us bear our
triumph in the same spirit Of fortitude
and self-control with which we have
borne our dangers"
Proud of Brilliant Fight.
To the army the King expresses his
pride at the brilliant success which
has crowned more than four years OF
effort and endurance.
Germany, our most formidable en-
envy, who planned the war to gain
supremacy of the world, full of pride
IN her armed strength and Of con-
tempt for the small British army Of
That dae. has now been forced to &C.
fnCwloGee TIE defeat" he says. 81
refnire that II this achievement the
4, G'ilish forces now grown from a
, snail beg'nning TO the finest army in
lour history. have borne 80 gallant and
distinguished part. Soldiers of the
British Empire. in France and Belgium
the process of your arms as great in
retreat as in victory, has won the
admiration Of aIl--friends and foe
and has now by happy historic fate
by capturing Mons, where your prede-
cessors Of 1914 shed the first British
blood Between that date and this
you have traversed long and weary
road. Defeat has more than once
stared you in the face. Your ranks
have been thinned again and again by
wounds, sickness and death. But your
faith has never faltered: your courage
has never failed; your hearts have
never known defeat. With your allied
comrades you have won the day. So Z.
Others Of you have fought In more
distant fields, in the mountains and
plains Of Italy, in rugged Balkan
.nnfes, under the burning sur of Pal.
estjne, Mesopotamia and Africa, amid
The SHOWS OF Russia and Siberia and
ly tbs shores Of the Dardareiles.
Blessings for Posterity.
81 pray that God. who has been
pleased &c grant victorious end to
this great crusade for justice and right
VIII prosper and bless our efforts in
the immediate future to secure for
the generations to come the hard-won
blessings of freedom and peace"
In his message to the air forces. the
King says:
"Ous' far-fung squsd7ons have flown
over home waters and foreign seas.
the western and Italian battle line
the Ehine'and, the mountains Of Mace
Ionic, Gt iipoli and Palestine, the plains