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Show oo TELLS OFTHEWAR Major Bridges Saw Outrages Committed by Germans in Early Part of Conflict. NEW YORK, April 26 With Major General G T. M. Bridges of the British war commission as their guest of honor, hon-or, tho members of the American Newspaper Publishers association, at their annual dinner here tonight, proclaimed pro-claimed their confidence in the future of the United States and her allies, pledged anew their patriotic devotion to the nation. Tho representative of the British army on the commission headed by Foreign Minister Balfour, who told with pride of having fought under Marshal Joffro at the Marne. was given giv-en enthusiastic welcome. "He is a man of whom it may be said that he saved the civilized world at the battle of the Marne," said the soldier of England in his tribute to the great French commander. Speaking as the representative of Mr. Balfour, General Bridges brought with him to the dinner something fo the spirit of the battlefields of France and Belgium. He was able to tell from his personal experiences something of the scourge of Belgium at tho beginning begin-ning of the war It was not the work of undisciplined soldiers, he declared, but was the deliberate plan of the highest German army authorities. He also declared the soldiers of England Eng-land and France would like to see the Stars and Stripes flying beside tho tricolors tri-colors and tho Union JacK upon the field of battle. Patriotism was the dominant note of the dinner from the decorations to the speeches. Tho Invocation was a plea that tho strength of the nation be devoted to "humanity's holy cause" and J E. Hedges, the toastmaster, proposed pro-posed a composite toast to tho president, presi-dent, tho king of England and the president of Franco. Gerard Pleads for Service. James W. Gerard, former American ambassador to Germany, who was tho chief speaker after General Bridges made an impassioned appeal for universal uni-versal military service. It is the only thing which can savo the nation from Prussia militarism, he declared. Ho called upon every publlshor present to send a telegram to hia paper directing that It come out flatly for tho administration admin-istration bill and support it by any means in his power. By so doing, he said, "you gentlemen will break a lanco for the cause of freedom. We can't go into this war with velvet gloves. We have got to have this bill." Germany is from 1500 to 2000 years behind the times in liberty and democracy. de-mocracy. Mr Gerard asserted. "There may bo riots there," he said, "but there will bo no rovolutlon." To a certain extent, tho former ambassador am-bassador asserted, the entrance of the United States into the war Is due to the misrepresentation of American sentiment in Germany and German sentiment in America by American newspaper men of pro-German sympathies sympa-thies who were stationed in Berlin. Ho paid high tribute, however, to Seymour B. Conger of tho Associated Press, and Carl W. Ackerman. They were true Americans, he said. "The worst enemies In this country today," Mr. Gerard declared, "are tho inslduous enemies hero at home who misrepresent facts in the matter." Mr. Gerard arraigned Speaker Clark for his advocacy of tho volunteer system. sys-tem. He said he had supported Mr. Clark In his campaign for Democratic nomination for president In 1912. "But, thank Heaven." ho exclaimed, "some boneflclent provldonce which keeps tho American people from put ting forward their near-statesmen, Intervened." In-tervened." Tlrpltz Had Designs. Referring to Germany's ambitions before the war, Mr. Gerard said Admiral Ad-miral von Tlrpltz had openly advocated advocat-ed the seizure of the coast of Flanders as a base for operations against England Eng-land and America. Tho Von Tlrpltz party now is in the ascendancy, he said. Germans of all types, Mr. Gerard Ger-ard explained, advocated the bringing of England to her knees, seizing her navy and using British warships to act agalnot the United States, thereby forcing this country to pay all the expense ex-pense of tho conflict. He placed emphasis on the Russian situation and asserted that if Russia, H withdraws from the war or if it acta- H Ineffectively the United States will bo M brought face to face with German au- H Major General Leonard Wood, who H spoke briefly, said he hoped to see thl H country In fighting array at an early H |