The Washington times., 1920-01-25

is thatf Does he have to do things
like that 10 hold his place. or what
is 1T
Let JeIlicoe run away. let French
have his JOY parties in Flanders. but
keep our own gang in power-that
seemed TO be the war cry OF that
London gang Let everything hap
pen-we1l fool the public after II
happens" And they were fooling a
lot OF them. too.
The British Were Licked.
Six months before we were drawn
Into the war they were licked, and
were hanging on by their toes till we
got going. and yet when our fellows
went over there they heard on all
sides:
Now thai we've won the war
the Yankees ave come"
Was IL any wonder that wherever
any OF our fellows were camped In
the British Isles they took 10 going
around and beating up "Limies ana
Tommies?
In England, while the armistice
was pending, Sims wave out hgures
tinctured with that same spirit with
which he IL now deprecating the work
of our navy in the war. He gave out
figures In London in october, 1918, to
show ihow many millions OF troops
the British escorted safely TO France.
Great across the narrow British
Channel, with n solid line both sides
to protect them.
We took our across three thousand
miles stretch with U-boats working
both sides without losing a man. Two
hundred and odd of our soldiers were
lost on the Tuscania. but she was un-
der a British, not an American, escort.
Another banquet for British.
Sims gave out figures to show that
we were beholden to British ships for
getting GO per cent OF our men across.
Incidentally, they put in n bill for
Sl6O per man for that service, winch
price we cut in two when we settled
the bill.)
But where is the Go per cent. when
Washington has officially declared
that our own ships took over 10 per
cent and that French and Italian
ships also took some?
Why does he say SUCH things lie
told In print Of the hundreds AND
hundreds of British-war craft h.
calls thcm--engaged | nthe war de-
fense, and compares the magnificent
total to the few scores we ahd over
there-ours amount 10 3 per cent or
something like that, OF theirs.
But he does not say that every ship
we sent over was live unit, and that
hundreds and hundreds of the British
craft were ridiculous little things
that could not leave the hRrbor in
any kind of blow. Mounted with one
FOUNDER guns in the bows many OF
them were, and with sea-chop three
feet high they could not fire a shell,
and say. half the time, would il hit
the sky or be dumped in the swash
alongside.
Sims Disloyai to Daniels.
He does not emphasize the fact that
the great lines of sea traffic conVerg
ing in the Bay OF Biscap, the English
CHANNEL and the South Entrance to
the Irish Sea We're guarded by our
fellows. and that that work combined
with the work of laying the great
mine barrages in the North Sea-S0
per cent OF il lad by our navy--was
what broke the U-boat back.
No, he does not say that. and why
not?
Sims was disIoynI 10 Secretary
Daniels In war time, Ind he IL dis
loyal to him now. His admiralty
headquarters In LONDON were rotten
with the bsckcappinE OF DRniels-
He says now that Daniels should
have taken more destroyers from the
guardiapcy of our own coast and sent
them over to help him. He says that
Notwithstanding that il was the Lon
don gang behind Sims who spread
the propaganda early that If we did
not go over there and help lick Ger
many then Germany would be over
here to lick us. But now he says
there was never any danger to our
shores.
Perhaps there never was, and yet
at this tirne when Daniels thought 4