Show Bottomless Balderdash Q upon tho the publicity recently given President SEIZING J Wilsons Wilson's speech to the United States naval officers at our entrance into the thc war Horatio Bottomley of Loudon London London Lon Lou don who seems anxious to stir up trouble between this country and Great Britain comes out in a n. recent issue issue of John Bull Bull Bullof of which he is tho the owner with an article artick article ar ar- ar- ar tick entitled Trouble Brewing With America with the tho subtitle II Our Our Next Enemy Among other alleged evidences of bitter feeling of of- Americans against England he be quotes what ho he be calls II Mr rr Wilsons Wilson's contemptuous sneer in referring to the British admiralty s failure to use Britain's great naval naval na na- na- na val al superiority in an effective way its s helplessness to the point of panic in the presence of or tho the submarine I emergency and its not protecting convoys on an adequate scale within tho the danger zone And it was the British fleet says Mr 1 Bottomley which successfully convoyed ed the American army ay across the Atlantic without a a. single mishap Mr Bottomley proceeds Isn't ft rt high time Mr Lloyd Geor George o took the bit hit be between between between be- be tween his teeth and told America as M. M L has told Germany that we will have no moro more of or this nonsense Let us get out of or Americas America's debt without further delay elay Let the thu United States bo be formal formally notified that whether she sho comes Into tho league lea of nations or not sho she must have o no shipbuilding program not approved by tho allied states Then we shall know Just where wo we stand Personally Personally- ind nd I 1 SD say It I deliberately I scent grave gravo danger ahead Mr Bottomley then asserts that most of or tho trouble centers around 1 Mr r. r Wilson who when he wis was over ocr hero herow endowed dowed 1 with h mentality ne t ity utterly out of or concord w was a a. a v I t r Dr r wall wun European n ne al aiso tj peo u VoL i. i u u professional notes and declares that the ridiculous fuss u made during his visit to Europe absolutely turned his head There is much more of the same strain in which American idealism is called H Yankee bluff and the tho article winds up its tirade of abuse with the remark that If it takes two to make a quarrel it t takes kes the thc same number to make friendship and md as regards Anglo Anglo- American relations I must first if you please catch a 3 glimpse of Uncle Sams Sam's extended hand Horatio Bottomley is an M. M P. P but that fact does not prevent his being a 3 blatherskite and a sensation monger of the tho type Yet it will be regarded as unfortunate that Secretary iy Daniels found it necessary to lug Ing the private utterances of the President into a 3 controversy which involved only the efficiency of our own navy and which possible bearing on tho the questions at issue before the Senate naval commit committee e. e |