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Show mm i mm SUCCESSFUL VtfJTURE Sergeant Major Kenning of Royal Engineers Makes Address. Sueoess in every particular attends the British bazaar", being hold bv tbc Britannic association at Unity hall. 138 South Second East street. Throngs at-tended at-tended the bazaar yesterday, the second sec-ond day, and the sales and other sources of revenue have yielded much more than anticipated, according to announcements made last night. Addresses were made last night by former Governor William Spry and Sergeant Major D. O. Kenning Ken-ning of the. Uoyal Engineers, British army. Several especially attractive additional addition-al features have been arranged for the closing today. Three stories of the experiences ex-periences of a British subject endeavoring endeav-oring te eulist in tee UniteTl States army, accepted for publication by a Popular magazine from the author, 'rank E. Scott, will be read by P. J. Holden. An auction of merchandise and other goods will be held at 9 o'clock and there will be many musical numbers. num-bers. The doors will open at 3 o'clock this afternoon. "Neither Britain nor France have' imperialistic im-perialistic aims or seek to acquire territory ter-ritory by this war," Sergeant Major Kenning' said. "The object of all the allies, however, is ridding the world of the Prussian menace. The people of Germany are brought up to respect military authority and a revolution in that nation is practically out of the question." He stated that all who are not able to bear arms should be prepared pre-pared to give freely of their possessions to aid the men at" the front. He paid high tribute to the. Young Men's Christian Chris-tian association. "This association has clone more to uphold the morale on the Western front than any other organization," organiza-tion," he stated. . "Germans have been trained under military autocracy just as we have been brought up under democracy and the sufferings of the war will not democratize demo-cratize the Germans any more than the sacrifices of the conflict will imperial-ize imperial-ize the United States," Governor Spry stated. "It is follv for the peop.le of the United States to believe this will be a short war. We will be called upon to furnish as mucH gold au property and human life as Britain, her colonies and France have given before we (can attain our ends. "Until now there is no indication on the part of Germany to fail to meet everv requirement and it will require the efforts of the civilized world to put her down and out where she belongs. We have been led to believe that Germany Ger-many was supreme in the arts and science's, sci-ence's, but we are learning that her citizens citi-zens are little better than men of the stone age. . We were taught that France was effeminate. Yet where is the superior su-perior of the French fighter! We are going to defeat Germany, but it will take death and suffering into nearly every American home." Among the musical numbers were a saxophone solo by Ben Brewster and vocal music bv James Moncarr, John James, Scottish male quartette and a violin solo by Miss Elizabeth Bamberger. |