Show s i iF F BROUGHT i ALLIEs ALLIE PREMIER PREM LAUDS U. U S. S S SHARE IN WORLD ORLO WAR AR 1 Lloyd George For First Time Tune Reveals Secrets of Crisis When Army Was Sent to Rescue escue By S e LEEDS T EEDS England Dec 7 Send Send I Send your Sour ships across and we will send the month men per President V Wilson sent this cable message to Premier Lloyd George on March 21 1918 in response to an urgent urgent urgent ur- ur gent S HS 0 O. S S. S message from tho the British premier laying bare baro the terribly terribly terribly ter ter- critical situation n of the allied armies At dawn th that t da day the Germans Ger mans had launched their towards Amiens It was Lloyd George Goore himself who In Ina ina a speech here toda today disclosed for tor the first X n of ot cablegrams cablegrams' with President nt Wilson It was an nn narrative this bit of or inside history of or the gravest ut crisis for the allied causo cause In the whole war war inspiring inspiring to Americans who ho heard It for It was n now w proof to them from the lips of oe Britain's first statesman of or orthe the smashing decisive part Am Americas America's troops pla played in the great great war wa inspiring InspirIng Inspiring ing also aha to all for it told them how even cven Americas America's help could not have reached the allies had it not been for tor Britain's fleet Tribute to Navy The speech on the tho whole was indeed Indeed an eloquent tribute tributo to the British nav navy I yI shall never forget et said tho premier pro pro- mier mien that morning morning- March il 1 when I 1 sent Rent a cable to President telling him what hat the facts were and how I It was essential that we should get ot American help at the speediest possible rate Inviting him to send Bend infantry in infantry In- In fantry and gunners per month to to- Europe If It he ho did that wo we should do our best to carr carry them I sent that telegram to Lord Heading Reading an and th the following da day came a n. telegram from President Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son Send your our ships across and we wo will send tho the men Then I Invited In Sir John McKay th the shipping controller to Downing street t and said to him Send er e every ship you OU can Food Supply Risked They The he were all an engaged engaged I In esse essential trades because we were cut down aown right to the bone There Thero was nothing that was not essential We e said This Is the time for taking risks Wo We 0 ran rl risks with our roo food We e ran risks with our essential raw materials We e said What hat we aro are going to do Is Isto Isto Isto to get the these e men across at all hazards America sent ent men across and md out of or that number were carried b by tho the British mercantile marine ma ma- rine The good old ships of Britain the ships which have havo saved ved tho the liberty of or orthe the world many times times saved It In the tho thons thon's days ns n's or of Queen Elizabeth Elizaboth saved sayed It in the theas thea's days as a's of ot Louis XIV In tho the days das of or Na Na- Napoleon Napoleon n- n saved It in the days of ot Kaiser II It Is a change continued d the premier premier premier pre pre- mier a change from December 1916 a 11 change from tho the days das when at the end of or the year we made our balance balanco sheet and anti found round Germany German had acquired more allied territory than she had had before a new ally had fallen and antl that another r all ally was tottering to the fall tall and that Germany was advancing ruthlessly along from conquest to conquest conquest con con- quest U Held field ld That was the stor story up to the end endor of or December 1916 What Is tho the stor story tod today Ever Every German submarine Is In a n British port tolla today The best battleships battleships battleships battle battle- ships and cruisers and torpedo boats bonts of or Germany Germ are now with lowered flags la s sunder under the surveillance sur of or British seamen seamen sea sea- men In Jn British harbors and the tho Brit Brit- British ish army which has fought so gallantly gallant gallant- which ly-which ly which has fought with a a. heroism which the world has haN never nc matched not as in the tho wars vars of or old when you had hada a n. great battle battlo and then another great battle battlo three months afterwards and In between marches and perhaps sieges and constant strain upon tho the nerves upon tho the health upon endurance upon tho the courage upon ullon tho the r fearlessness of or ortho the tho ho heart of or men men for for four years ears tho British army went through It to victory vic vic- tory ory That arm army after months of or fighting and of ot suffering that army Is today tOlla at nt this hour marching toward the Continued on page pago 2 2 i PREMIER LA DS U. 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S SHARE IN WORLD WAR Continued from Page Pago 1 I Rhine into Germany Into ono one of ot tho the most famous cities clUes In Germany I t Shipping Controller Tells of Transport London Dc Dec Dc 1 Regarding 7 British aid ad ld In tho the transport of or American n troops the shipp shipping In controller today mado the tho following statement to the Associated Press The real effort tort to accelerate the movement of ot American troops began atthe at tho the cn end of ot March larch when wo we realized that that hat it was necessary to do what we vo could with British Bottoms to supplement supplement supplement supple supple- ment the American effort Ve We e sent sont a aI I mission to the United States with the object of or seeing see tho the fitting out f cill- cill ties lies there So Su far as they were not I required for American troop ships they were utilized to the maximum In fitting fit fitI tit tit-I I I lIn ting thug out British troop ships Ships wore gathered from e every ewery ery i source with the result that In the six months between April and September troops or CO GO per cent of the total to total total to- to tal number carried within that period I were transported In British h bottoms In all of or the o odd d American troops I transported to France well over 1000 were carried In British ships The Tho I whole of this million were escorted to the United Kingdom danger zone b by ships ships of ot the roa royal nav navy nav British shipping shipping ship ship- ping pine at that time lime was In a perilous situation but in order to further tho the movement of ot American troops we were prepared to make er sacrifice The following steps were taken taken- From Sou South h Africa ca we wo removed over every passenger cr steamer and for the time boIng behag be- be hag Ing practically killed trade with that country countr From India and Australia we removed all the tho fast tast steamers plying to and between en those two countries and we we mado made ver very dangerous sacrifices of ot meat supplies supplies endangered endangered even those of or th the British army by transferring ships to the North orth Atlantic thus wasting refrigerating space as meat was not available a for tor export from North American ports porta |