The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-04
US. FOURTH NOW The
WORLDS GALA DAY.
British Leaders Tell sThe Sum
American Holiday Has
New Meaning.
DEMOCRACIES IN UNION
Flag Waves Everywhere Ex-
cept Among Outcasts, Says
NOrthcliffe.
Special Gable Despdieh 10 The SuS.
Copyright, 1913; oil rights reserved


Copyright, 1913; oil rights reserved.
LONDON, July 3.-"Wherever the
dream of liberty IL cherished Independ-
ence Day will be kept tomorrow. II is
a token of a new era in which the prin-
ciples of liberty, equality and fraternity
will have embattled behind them the
predominant will and power Of man
kind"
Thus does the Pau Muu Ga=stts voice
the sentiment which inspires the celebra-
ton Of the Fourth OF July in the allied
countries. In London and the other
great cities of Great Britain. in the
camps where thousands OF American SOL
diers are resting on the way to France
and at the ports where American ships
are stationed Englishmen will Join
Americans in honoring the great ma
tional holiday.
Its Significance TO mankind in France.
where upward of million Americans
are in their country's uniform. marks
a nYilestons IN The worlds history. Paris
will rename one of its famous avenues
for President Wilson and in other ways
will pay tribute to the land across the
sea.
SeleDFatnon nOr ltnIys
In Italy the day will be celebrated as
a great national holiday. As Lord
Northcliffe pithily remarked: The
American nag will ny everywhere to-
except in the lands of the out
cast nations.
All the London newspapers give wide
space to what they describe as fitting
Fourth of July messages emblematic Of
Americas desire and determination to
win the war. The celebration In Lon
don will start early in the morning and
will continue until late at night, when
the soldiers and sailors will take part
in new game called 'bombing the
Kaiser" This consists OF throwing iron
crosses at n four foot cartoon OF the
German ruler
The principal feature OF the days
celebration in London will be an Anglo
American fellowship meeting, at which
Lord Bryce will speak and where Wins
ton Churchill will deliver a message OF
friendship from Britain to America
King to See Baseball Game.
The baseball game between the Ameri-
can Army and Navy teams. which will
be attended by thousands and at which
King George will toss out the first ball.
will of course be one Of the biggest
features Of the day here
This game will attract practically all
Americans in London. soldiers and civil
ians. and as their interested guests tens
Of thousands OF Englishmen and Eng
lishwomen will attend. While the latter
will not understand much OF the game
they will root and cheer and urge the
boys on with an interest as genuine II
Inoo int al isrth hnt
American Allies.
At other camps in England ball games
will be played also.
what Leaders Say.
What the celebration OF the Fourth
OF July IN the allied countries means
as an index OF the future in the world
relations is expressed in the following
messages to THE SuN from representa-
tive Enghshmen:
George ". Barnes Labor Member In
the War Cabinet-The Fourth OF July
typihes the coming together
OF the democracies for a peace based
upon and secured by a defensive alliance
of the worlds democracies.
Lord Denbigh a strenuous antiGer-
man LEADER The Fourth of July cele-
brations this year mark a new era in in
politics, now that America
has Joined the great union OF humanity
to rid the world OF the constant threat
Of the terror of German domination.
Gen. Page Croft (head Of the new
National Party)-The celebration of the
Fourth in Great Britain typlhes the end
Of misunderstanding and a sure reunion
with victory for the right,
Lord NorthCliffe-It is obvious that
the enthusiastic celebration OF your
great day in France. Great Britain and
Italy foreshadOws the formation of a
permanent league to enforce peace 1t
IS significant that the American flag will
by everywhere tomorrow except in Ger
many. Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and
Turkey. the lands OF the outcasts.
VIII Cement L. y. and Allies.
Havelock Wilson, head of the Mer-
chant Seamen's League-The celebration
or Independence Day will cement the
friendship between America. this coun-
try and the other Allies. 1t means the
COMING together of the democracies OF
all countries. None will rejoice more
heartily ON the Fourth Of July than the
whole British people who understand
what the United States stands for in
this war.
Premier Hughes OF Australia-To
the whole civilized world looks
for help in this hour OF supreme crisis.
The Allies are sorely pressed and the
need for reenforcements daily grows
more imperative and urgent America
has assembled In France more than a
million of the finest soldiers that the
world has ever seen, and l am con-
WINGED that with their help victory for
liberty and an enduring peace for the
world finally will be obtained
Premier Massey OF New Zealand-It
must be particularly gratifying to the
citizens OF the United States and those
OF the British Empire to think that az
ter nearly n century and a half of
enlargement these two great nations.
descended from the same stock and
speaking the same language. at last have
come together in the cause of liberty and
freedom. May the sun never again go
down upon their wrath may each sue
ceeding Independence Day find their re-
spect and esteem for each other increas-
ing each working out it's own destiny,
but ready and willing to work together
for the welfare and happiness OF man
kind!
Both Fighting for Freedom,
Premier d. W. F Lloyd OF Newfound.
land-lt Is deeply significant that the
two great English speaking peoples
should be standing shoulder to shoulder
nghting for the sacred cause Of freedom
ana democracy and the rights Of small
nations. May II be that In the near fu-
ture this alliance will prove to be the
foundation of a permanent union of the
Anglo-SaNon race, the surest base for a
league OF nations and the preservation
of the worlds peace.
Sir Joseph Ward. Minister of Fina nee
oil New Zealand-To the American peo-
plo and the American soldiers. Moro
llln lun