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Show The Ships That Saved ! I.loyd George's speech ip Leeds strongly indicates tlul. in respect of freedom of the seas, disarmament and l eague of Nations. . Woodrow Wilson Is going to have his trouble. The Hritish premier pre-mier called attention to the fact that last March, when the Hun was nearing Paris via Amtens, and Haig was crying that his bad was against the wall, Britain appealed to America to send over I :o,ooo fighters per month. J "Send your ships and we'll send the men," .replied Present! " Wilson. j Britain sent the ships and the Hun was stopped and turned back, never to return. j "The good old ships of Britain!" concludes I.loyd (ienrje in -his speech. "The ships which have saved the liberty of the world many times saved it in the days of Queen Elizabeth; saved it in j . the days of Louis XIV; saved it in the days of Napoleon; saved it in the days of Kaiser Wilhelm II!" J The days of Louis and the Co'rsican butcher and Wilhelm the I bloody Hun are gone, and civilization has paid an awful price that' they may never return. But will Britain, issuing from a test that! tried every pound of resources she possessed, be at all willing toj abandon or weaken that which saved her ' If she is so, peace finds j in the hearts of the British' a sentiment far greater and nobler than ! joy over a triumph wrth arms, and Woodrow Wilson will earn laurels such as no other mtfre mortal ever wore. ' i |