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Show BRITISH OFFICER DESCRIBES WAR COITUS : Captain Frank Edwards Urges America To Get Into This Conflict And Make A Real Sacrifice. Despite the fact that the weather was bad last Thursday evening the Stake Tabernacle was filled to hear Captain Frank Edwards of Great Britain, Brit-ain, who delivered a most stirring address. ad-dress. His appeal was keen and far reaching. He opened his address by stating that "The American nation is as great in generosity as in any other way and your welcome here tonight is not to me personally, but rather for the men who sleep in France. Regardless Re-gardless of how great has been your sacrifice it is nothing compared with the people of Belgium, France, Italy, and Great Britain. I am here tonight because your government sent for a number of British officers to tell the story of what is happening at the front. I enlisted as a private and worked my way up because I do not want to ask a man to do anything which I have not already done. We are all dreaming of victory, but it will como only through struggle and sacrifice. "The American boys have brought the end nea.fr than experts expected at this time, but don't be over confident, confi-dent, the" war is not over yet High authorities tell us that the end is nearing, but that Germany will yet put up an awful struggle before she quits. (Many gallant young men must go down before victory is won. America Amer-ica has nearly two million of the finest fin-est young men that were ever born, over there, and some of them are not coming home. They will never reap the fruits of their sacrifice. Others will. You must back up these boys. You people of America have not learned learn-ed the full fruits of sacrifice. When your boys march away you sing and shout, but in England when they go away no bands pluy, no one sings, no shouting. They march away to die. "I hardly ever sit down to a meal here in America but I feel sorry to see the waste. I am given more meat for one meal than my wife and children chil-dren got In a week. In England every business man is constable four nights in the week because all the policemen have gone to war. The 31st Batallion is called the bankers battalion be-caune be-caune It has 1000 bankers. ' In Eng-gland Eng-gland you never see a motor car, the government has commandered all the gasoline. England haH sent out armies to seventeen different fronts. England Eng-land has eight and a half million men ! In the service. One man In every three males are fighting. Where you have a service star we have a gold utar. The men and women of England Eng-land were never more determined to figlit thi thing through. There lias been some propaganda that -IlugluaJ was not doing her part. This .' ; fr! f You nnmt remember that 78 per c"t of our original force lias been lost in buttle. In l!M7 more than 8imj.oo British went down in battle. My friends In order to keep your "I!om' Fires Burning." t!i mothers and ebiliii'ii of another country have Rone down. Let tne Iktp flint hundred of thousands of littli; cliil-dr'Ti cliil-dr'Ti in Fnui'-o would have perHed ' :.d it nt been for the mlnlhtry of, the American Red Cross. Mothers and fathers write to your boys often 1 they are better fighters if they hear j from you and know that everything is ' all right at home. Don't write about the war. "I have seen 100,000 bodies of dead Frenchmen lying on No Man's Land ; , ut one time. Who will compensate r.un, rranco. No! She Is too poor' 1 rr-lr.rd. No! She Is too deeply in 'debt. America. No! She Is not re-1 sponsible, (iermany must pay for this terrible loss. The women in England are working j everywhere to fill the places of men so that they can go to the front. More than i,ooo,0(io women are work-; ing In factories nml fen thousand are! working behind the lines in France, in order that more men may go info tthe front line trewhes. j |