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Show LLOYD GEORGE PAYS TRIBUTE TO DEFENDERS Parliament Votes Thanks to Army and Navy and to Men and Women in the Auxiliary Service. WARSHIPS ANCHOR OF ALLIED CAUSE Premier Tells of What Has Been Accomplished Since War Bsgan; Asquith j and Redmond Follow. hOiNDON, Oct. 20. parliament today adopted a resolution presented by Premier Lloyd George, expressing: the thanks of the parliament to the navy and the army, including the overseas troops and the mercantile marine, for their services in tlie war and to the women in the medical and other auxiliary services, and further expressing sympathy to the relatives said friends of those who have given their lives for their country. Premier Uloyrt George, in moving the resolution, said that even if he had leisure In these terrible times, especially tho anxiety of the last two or three days, ho felt he could not do justice to this great theme. The deeds mentioned in the resolution were known to ojtd had won tho admiration of every subject of the king. Navy the Anchor of Hopes. The British navy was Uke one of those internal organs essentia: to life, of which we are unconscious until something goes wrong1. In this whj-, said the premier. ' the navy- had beon the anehor of the allied cause If it lost Us hold, the hopes of the alJiance would be shattercl. Tho premier told how the navy had guaranteed supplies lo Ihe army abroad ; and material which it had enabled the ! aUies to get from abroad, adding: ; "But for the navv disaster would have fallen upon the allied cause. Prussia would be mistress of Kurope, and, through Europe, of the world. Despite hidden foes, despite Illegitimate naval warfare, despite black piracy, the navy has preserved pre-served the highways of tho seas for Tirit-1 Tirit-1 a.in and her allies. What Has Been Done. i "Plnrfi the beginning of the war the I navv has insured the safe transportation to the British and allied armies of thirteen thir-teen million men, two million horses, twenty-five niilHon tons of explosives and supplies and fifty-one million tons "of coal and oil. The losses of men out. of Ihe whole thirteen million were only JISUO, of which onlv Tftn were lost through the anion of the. enemy. Altogether, 130,000.- 000 tons have been transported by British ships," t was too earlv to summarize the effect ef-fect of the blockade by tho British navy, which would be complete, declared the premier. If It had not left the gate to the Balkans unlocked. It was not the. fault of the grand fleet if it had not had many opportunities; tha t was duo to the enemy's en-emy's knowledge of its efficiency, ptnee the battle of .Tut land . the Germans had never seen fit to challenge It. He paid a tribute "to the work of the smaller craft, which were to be found In all seas, beimr numbered by the thousands. thou-sands. Their hardships and dangers were . barely realized, yet the fruits of their action ac-tion "were enjoyed by the people of these islands. Tribute to Soldiers. The British expeditionary for-e. continued con-tinued Mr. I-loyd Georjre, now numbered more than three millions. It was a gre tt, i triumph of organization, but was only I rendered possible by the heroism of the ; old army "the tines! lighting troops in ! the world." Jt saved Prance and Europe, j but hardly a man of that army was left. The time had not come to deal with individual in-dividual achievements, but he must refer ! to Field Marshals Prench and Haig and General Maude. Of Uate. one of the most brilliant members of the general staff, he said : "Splendid as the righting dualities of the troops have been, the success has been due in large measure to the power of organisation, the persistence and forethought fore-thought of Halg." Seventy-five per cent of the eontrlbu-tion eontrlbu-tion In men, said the premier, had come from England and 75 per cent of the loss had fa lien upon England. Scotland has done its share; Ireland had made a. distinguished dis-tinguished contribution, aud in voluntary recruiting Wales had beaten the record by a shade. The dominions had contributed contrib-uted 7 'to. 000 to 80i,0()0 men. He praised the work of the Canadians on the western west-ern front, the A nzaes in Gallipoli and Prance and the South Africans, particularly particu-larly In clearing Telvllle wood. The memory of the powerful rid sivc:i by India would richer br forirotlrn. British Union Effective. "Never has the Hritish empire slmwn greater or more "lfctive union." e-clfimed e-clfimed the prerr.Vr. "It had been regarded re-garded as a dream; it now is a fact, a powerful fa t. in fashioning t he history of the world. " After references to the various auxiliary auxil-iary services, the premier offrj tlie sympathy sym-pathy of the house to tlie relatives of those who had fallen. Kx-PremlT .S'i"ith. wh-i followed. pMd eio't'.ent tribute to tlie .'ihring forces. "It is bv i h"ir ine t iurP-hn rp ith ihP l the fight has been v.-M maintained until It ends, as we ki Ov it inns;, in fie enthronement, of the sovericmy of ricrr.t. L-et it not be. said of thof.- u bo e.i . e tlu-ir lives. when the Judgment of history comes, that "iiiey gave their lives in va In. " .lolui Redmond, the Irish leader, sa id h'a object in risim: was to emphasize 1 ha t what the pr e n d e r and Mr. A srj u ! I h bad said wn the abs-u te unanimous sniimM!t of tlie house. The Irish troop?, he said. h:id shed a bister upon their race. and. howvpr torn by dissension or misfortune their country might be at this moment, hf believed that the whole Irish race t (! ? v wa s i'J1d with pride a.nd ! gralilude for '.heir achievements. |
