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began the celebration the night before
with special programmes in all the
gayly decorated theatres and music halls
The day was a perfect one for base
oall. A huge crowd greeted the royal
party when II arrived in open carriages.
Many British and Canadian officers and
men In uniform were In the grand stand.
The stand also sheltered Admiral Sims.
Gen. Biddle and other Americans Of
prominence, together with Lieut.. Gen.
Jan Christian SHUTS the South African
statesman Premier Hughes OF Australia.
Premier Massey OF New Zealand, Ad-
miral Wemyss, First Sea Lord OF the
Admiralty; Gen. Sir William Robertson,
Lord Desborough and others.
Team Captains Presented to King.
Ensign Hayes was captain of the navy
team and Lieut.. Minis OF the army. The
two captains were presented to King
George before the game.
The formal celebration began with a
fellowship meeting in Central Hail.
where 500 seats were allotted to Ameri-
can soldiers and sailors. The meeting
opened with the band OF the Coldstream
Guards playing "The Star Spangled
Banner"
In opening the meeting viscoun.
Bryce. who presided. said
For many a year to-day was cele-
brated in the United States with hos
tility and defiance. BY us in Britain
1t was remembered with sorrow as
marking the severance of precious ties.
And now. after 142 years. II Is being
celebrated by both peoples with like en-
thusiasm--by the children of those who
revolted against the British Crown. as
by the children OF those who sadly ad-
mitted the loss OF one OF that Crowns
choicest Jewels.
What has been a day OF anger on one
side and of grief on the other has be-
come for both a day OF affection and re-
joicing."
II some political connection had been
preserved. said Viscount Bryce the war
of 1912. an unmixed evil for both ma
lions. would have been avoided. and
though the colonies would have become
practically self-governing. like Canada.
the mediation of the mother country
probably would have averted the war OF
secession and assured the peaccable ex-
tinction OF slavery.
Viscount Bryce said that the bitter
ness of 1876 never could have arisen had
the will Of the British people ruled then
as II rules to-day
THE severance came" he declared,
because we had then a perverse court
and a non-representative Parliament"
Remarxing that the press had en-
phasized the fact that American troops
had been brigaded with the British ard
French, Vice Admiral Sims said he
wanted TO call attention to the fact that
for nearly year all the American naval
forces In European waters had been
br!gaded with British and other allied
forces.
Sims Praises init of Command.
at is unnecessary" said Admiral
Sims. ito state that the reason for
this has no connection with the
competence of the Admirals to direct
their own forces. From the very be-
ginning II was established as an in
flexible policy that unity OF command
and direction was a prime requisite for
success.
The submarine campaign has been
met" the Admiral asserted. AT pres
ent the Allies are sinking submarines
faster than they are being built, and
building ships faster than they are
being sunk"
Speaking as the representative of the
American army, Major Gen. Biddle said
that In the vicinity of almost every city
in the United Kingdom are Americans
either In transit or In training Every