The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-06
'"BRITAIN'S DAY" CLORIFICATION
 OF THAT COUNTRY'S WAR DEEDS

North Sea and the waters around the British Isles this was, of itself, no Sunday school picnic, but besides this faithful watching waiting" these are some of the things this wonderful organization has accomplished. Quot ing from MT, Reeds article in Col
 Hers: Tn four years and a little
 more it has conveyed in excess of I 13,00O,0 900 men, of whom only 2,7G0
 were lost through enemy actioni
 2,000,000 horses and mules; 500,000 :, vehicles, 25,0O0,00O tons of explosives; 4 5t,OO0,0O0 tons of fuel, including oil
 and it has kept the highways of the
 deep open for British ships which
 have carried 30,0OO,OO0 tons of food
 and other supplies for use of the En-
 tente Allies and the United States"
 We should not forget that of all the i Allied forces that have been fighting | German submarine pirates in At |
 antic waters, 80 per cent. are British, .
 IA per cent. are American and 6 per l cent are French; while of the Allied !
 submarines in these same waters, 78 i
 per cent. are British, IT per cent. are l
 French and per cent. are American" 1
 These are the most accurate figures i
 available at the present and should |
 be Illuminating and impressive to
 skpetics of anti-British tendencies.
 However, much the land fighting forces contributed to the final collapse of the Hun it Is not idle fancy that
 history will record that it was by the British sea grip on her throat that Germany was choked and starved into supmission. Not starved So much il the matter of foodstuffs as that of raw ! material, raw copper, cotton, wool, hides and rubber, and if it was the
 army that gave the final coup de grace, it was the navy, by shutting off supplies that brought the Germans to l ! virtual state of impotency through ! lack of raw material for ordnance
 From the Hateful Aug. 4, 1914, to 1 Nov. Il, 1918, the British navy guard
 cd the transportation of soldiers from 1 the ends of the earth to no less than nineteen fighting fronts, America ac- | knOwledges, too, that SO per cent. of ! her fighting men were transported on l British ships and admits that had | she met the Germans three years
 earlier, before they had been choked
 into mi-insensibility by the British ! Bulldog, she would have had a far more serious problem to solve, America knows, too, that she would
 not equal Britain's sacrifice of life until 2,40O, 000 American soldiers were l dead and 6,000,00O wounded, until Americans were paying taxes $8,O0O,- 000,00 each year; until 12,0O0,000 | American women were engaged in
 work formerly performed by men. l But perhaps it is as much because of
 gratitude to the workers of Britain,
 ps to the fighting men that America
 with full heart would pay f1liaI tri-
 bute. It is not too much to say that
 the women of Britain have played a
 most important part in the world cat
 aclysm. Briefly, 500O,00O British | women have been doing work former Iy performed by men; 0,00O of them
 being in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. From every walk of life this
 vast army of women have supported
 their mankind nobly with real work.
 As a concrete example, "during the
 past year Britain has found it possi-
 ble, in fact, not difficult, to build a ship complete in every part while using no labor whatever but that of women-not a man being employed" :" , Perhaps a large number of American mothers already know of the follow ing interesting item, furnished by the
 British governments Bureau of In
 formation: Five thousand British girl soldiers have been sent to the American army in France. These are !, engaged in clerical duties and some nre making pies for American boys t This may be one of the things that is , juggling at the heaItstrings of Ameri-
 can motherhood. Even the children 3 of Britain have been well to the fore l In "doingMheir bit" for home. coun- f try and humanity, About 200,O ,OOC r boys too young to serve in the arn7y f ; and navy have been mobilized in var V f'1s brigades and assigned to duties d releasing for active service a core f spOI uing number of their elder broth a CTS. The younger sisters of these pat a riotiC youths have been keeping house f so that their mothers and older sis f ters could be filling shells or any O. F Inc 1,70O different occupations tha - were formerly filled by men. Not Ions .s since no less a man than Lloyd George f paid high eulogy to the work of tht if British women and children and i e was fully and richly deserved.
 Il Because BritaIn was far seein. e enough to see danger ahead, not onl' e to her own shores, but to these Amer Il lean shores, as well, and threw he ,- "Contemptlble little army' into tn d breach and unleashed the seadogs o " war, with fool-hardlness, perhaps ,f but with unf1inching purpose, was tn if doom of Prussian militarism frs If sounded. And the spirit was there fl II fight it out to the end even if she hat D to do it alone and it took the las d man, the last gun, and the last ounc d Of gold. Her singleness of pu1Dose ant A the honesty o6 her intentions finalI If broke down Americas reserve. an for these and other reasons Americ ze sprang to the aid of the Allies an l+ helped clean up the already badl m battered armies of Germany Be 7e cause, too, their boys have ate an o. slept and fought and died together to America and Britain have been draw ar closer than they have ever been sine IF the daughter quarrelled with th r. mother over the question of a boar .i- bill The daughter thought tn +o mother was charging her too muc ,5 and decided to cut loose from +r +o home strings which after considerab .~ wrangling, she did.
 1n But time heals most wounds ar ozr adjusts all differences, and no nv America has set aside a day to bul nr the family hatchet and in ming1e
 shame, admiration and gratitude wi e5 thank the old mother country for Il as part she has taken in this bIoodie ,a- and most momentous of all wars.