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Show ill ECU H E'S VICTORY WILL BE WITH ALLIES Crawford Vnughan, political leaden of South Australia, lecturer and' political politi-cal economist of wide repute, talked last night in the city hall to a small audience of Ogden citizens, mostly students and representatives of lnbor organization, in addition to city officials. offi-cials. His message was for a strong and united support of the government govern-ment In its war against Ggrmnnism. by both labor and capital. He assured as-sured his audience thatf the oft -repeated cry that this,, is a capitalist's war was erroneous and that the principle prin-ciple for which the armies were striving striv-ing was of as much importance to the laboring man as to the capitalist. He urged a strong unity of effort and purpose, the forgetting of petty quarrels quar-rels and differences and a mighty concentrated effort by isvery force of the nation toward winning the war Mr. Vaughan told of the vast stores of wheat and frozen mrats in Australia Austra-lia waiting for shipment across tho waters' to the aid or the allied nations in Europe. He spoke or the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Australia had given for the relief of French, Belgians, Serbians and Russians and of the work that she was doing at home to aid the prosecution of the war. Out of a population of approximately 5,000,000 people, Australia has sent approximately ap-proximately -100,000 men to the fighting fight-ing front and they have been through some of the most trying campaigns cam-paigns of the war, Egypt. Gailipoli and France. And all this had been done, he said, not because of the allegiance owed England but because the peo ple of a liberty-loving land wished to fight to preserve that great principle of liberty froni violation by a horde of blood-lustful autocrats who thought themselves called upon by God to scourge the world and bring onto it a worse plague of misery and suffering than men ever dreamed of Mr Vaughan told of the first days of the war when the gallant French army, thrown before ihe advancing lines of the Huns, aided the Belgians in stemming the tide at Mons. at. the Aisne and at the Maine and of the little expeditionary force from England, Eng-land, Kitchenor's mob, sent across the channel hastily to reinforce the desperate des-perate armies of France and Belgium, and of how they all strove against tremendous odds of men and engines of war but stayed the advance and halted the greatest war machine ever conceived, while preparations were made at the beginning for more men and more munitions. Pie told of the blunders made at the beginning when men were sacrificed because they were not equipped properly, when ammunition am-munition was scanty and organization not perfect. He then contrasted those condition with conditions today. Australia with her stores of grain .and meats, two year's supply of both waiting In granaries gran-aries and refrigeration plants, but no ships to send them over. If the Australian Aus-tralian supplies .could be sent to .this country, the American supplies would be sent to Europe, he said, and a tremendous tre-mendous amount at aid would be given the fighting forces. The need of ships at this time is paramount. Every rivet binding the plates of a vessel together to-gether is a machlno gun bullet into the heart of Germany, he said; every mechanic adding his might and brain to the construction of a ship Is a mighty blow struck at the heart of Germany. Mr. Vaughan said he thought the war would not end for several years yet, that the strength of the enemy had already been underestimated, but that the allies would win as surely as the sun rises in the morning, that they were lined up on the side of right and would triumph although it drained the nations to the last drop and took years to accomplish. oo |