Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-07-20
TALKS ON SANITATION SPEAKING AT SHIPY YARD

Private Burgess of Princess Pat Regi.
ment; J. 4. IeOmans. of Canada,
and Colin H. Livingstone, President
of Company, Make Patriotic Ad-
dresses to Employees.
Build Ships Like He'll"
That's the message brought this
afternoon TO the sn:pbuilders of the
Virginia ShipbUilding Corporation in
an address delivered by J. A. Yeo-
mans, from the Canadian War Lee
| ture Bureau.
Private Leslie c. Burgess. of the
| famous Princess Pat regiment, also
delivered an interesting address on
conditions on the European battle
front
Private Burgess first story was
one on the winning of a Victoria cross
by Private Mullens. He said "One
day an order came to exterminate
a pill-box while we were in No Mans
Land Mullens crawled over to it in
front Of shot and shell of all sorts
and lowered it and accounted for every
man in the box and for this was
awarded the Victoria cross.
He next told of the wonderful hero
ism of boy of only seventeen VINO,
single handed. fought many Germans
with machine gun after his compan-
ion had been killed; finally wounded
in the neck he put his gun cut OF
business and afterward crawled back
to his own lines.
Private Burgess gave vivid por
trayal Of the battle of Ipres and
told of the great slaughter OF men il
which for twenty-fou- lours the mem
bers OF his regiment were completely
surrounded At the end Of four days
he told how other battalions reached
them.
Continuing the speaker said: "To-
day in America we have a task and
the most essential tang is the build
ing of ships The war is too big {
th.ng for any single government. Il
is a task in which all mast realize
we have part in. You have got tc
put every ounce Of energy you pos
sess in your work until the end OF
this war"
Colin II. Livingstone, president OF
the Virginia Shipbuildine Corporation.
told the shipbuiIders they would have
20 build ships in order to keep things
going, and he told the employees that
it is UP to them. Mr.. Livingstone
called the meeting to order and in
tlo!uced Mr.. Ycomans.
Mr.. Ycomans told of the part Cana
da was playing in the war. Since the
outbreak Of hostilities, he said, 434,-
0C0 Canadians volur-aered for serv-
ice and 5000 of those were unable tc
60 owing to physical defects and
later on 1000 thrown out on the
same grounds and actually 4O7 600
Canadians went into active service. BY
September he predicted 100000 Cana
dians would be at the front. He
facatiously told his hearers there were
10000 liars in the United States, that
number of men from here having
entered the ranks Of the Canadian
regiment in order to fight for liberty.
The speaker praised the great war
work being done in this country. He
pictured the crueltics inflicted by the
Germans on prisoner. and said there
Is no room today in America for any
one not 100 per cent American. My
message. he said. is Build Ships tc
Beat He'll" Concluding his remarks
ne said: Il tell you now you can
fight, put in sixty seconds to the min
ute and sixty minutes to the hour un-
til the allies fight to a successful and
honorable conclusion.
Both speakers were given big
ovation by the shipbuilders. In addi-
ton to the speakers others on the
stand were r. NJ. Much. assistant
treasurer of the corporation and NJ.
| p. Harlow.
The speakers were heartily con-
graduated by the shipbuilders. At the
conclusion of the speaking the vlsl-
tors were rendered luncheon.
Mr. Yeomans is from the Canadian
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