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Show LLOYD GEORGE TO VISIT U. S. IfJSEPTEMBER Former British Premier Coming Over to Thank Canada for Magnificent Services During War ALSO INTERESTED IN U. S'MAIN STREET? Auto Tour Through Typical Typi-cal American Farming Community on Itinerary; Pay Respects to Shrines By ED L. KEEN (Copyright, by United Prssa.) LONDON. Aug. 1 David Lloyd George will sail for Nsw Tork late In September on a tour which wIH tak him Into many of the cities of ths United Stales and Canada. HI purpose, as he expressed It In making hla plana known to the United Preea. Is to thank Canada for ita "magnificent service" to tha empire during the war and to become peraonally acquainted with the United Stales its cities. Its people and Ita political system. Brltaln'a wartime premier, outstanding out-standing figure in Europe during the world conflict, will make several sev-eral speeehea during tha trip and will visit . America's - national ehr1r.es. ' - Hla first addreee will be delivered deliv-ered In Montreal, where he will go Immediately after hi arrival In New York. . WILL SEE 'MAIN STREET," He will travel by motor aa well as by, train, aa he wanta to get cloee to the people in the dtlea and towns through which he passes and, to use hla own worda, he deal de-al rea te vlalt eeveral of the am a Her "main etreet" communltkea. LIO George wa busy today aiftlng thousands of Invitations from practically prac-tically every state In the United State and the provinces of Canada Can-ada and arranging hla Itinerary . Thl Itinerary ta tentatively aa follow a, subject- -to atenetswwr eurtallmont, depending on the tint at his disposal, which la still uncertain: un-certain: He win start for New Tork late In September and will leave New Tork for Montreal the night of the day of hie arrival. In Montreal the first speech of his tour. will be made. . Thence Lloyd George will go to Ottawa. Toronto, Winnipeg, St. Paul, Minn.: Chicago. Springfield. III.; Indianapolis, poealbly St. Louis snd Cleveland, and then to Pitta-burg. Pitta-burg. Washington and Rica-mond, Rica-mond, Va. WILL VISIT GETTYSBURG. From Richmond he will go on a motor trip over the Virginia bat-tleflelde bat-tleflelde and then to Philadelphia, then to Gettysburg, whence he will make a side trip to Scranton, Pa., before hla departure for home. The former premier, discussing his tour, aaid to the United Preea: "I deajre to make clear that I have only one mission In America, namely, to express my opinion aa prime minister during the war for Canada magnificent services and sacrlflcee in behalf of the empire. "My only other purpoee le a trip of eelf-educatlon with regard to America. 1 am particularly eager to get personally acquainted with your great Mlddleweet. I would like to learn aomethlng at first hand of your political system and machinery. I want to. meet not only your national leadera, but eom of the representative men. INTERESTED IN FARMS. "I dealr to visit en route two or three of the smaller 'main street' towns. I hope to have an opportunity to motor, say, from Springfield. 111., to which I am attracted at-tracted becauee of Its aasociatlona wtth Lincoln: to Indlanapolla, for the purpoee of viewing the typical farm region. "I am moot desirous of visiting Kansas City, from which I have received cordial Invitations from the mayor and oihera, and f hope to Include It If possible, because I consider Kansas City tha real heart of America. I shall certadnly visit Pittamitg. because It Is the center of an American community and th home of many Welshmen. "I have alwaye been most Interested In-terested as a; sou dent la the American Amer-ican Civil war and hence desire to see your battlefield over which Stonewall Jackson and other brave men fought. "I would Ilk o extend the tour further west, even to the Pacific '-oast; but tt la Indefinite a to whether I cat d- thla. "Naturally, I hop to eee the Brerldent In Washington. "I am watching the course ef hie illneee now with exceeding anxiety." Lloyd George will be accompanied accom-panied by hla wife and hi daughter. daugh-ter. Miss Megan Lloyd George, and his private secretary, A. J. Sylvester. |