Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1918 — Lloyd George Sends U. S. A New Year's Greeting. [ARTICLE]

Lloyd George Sends U. S. A New Year's Greeting.

Messages ' from the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, have been sent to all the allies except Russia, but inluding Greece. All express the good wishes of the British war cabinet to the government and peoples addressed. To President Wilson Mr. Lloyd George says: “At this season I wish, in behalf of the British war* cabinet, to send to your government and people a message of good. will. Every day that passes must make us realize more clearly the hopes of the human race" center upon the triumph of our cause.

“Every day proves to us that our friendship for One another is becoming more and more the cement of that league of free nations which npw stands as the guardian of justice and liberty throughout the world. “We wish in particular to send a message of*> thanks to the United States navy for the services it has renderd in the past year'and of the greeting to the young American army now training to take its place in the battle for human freedom.We are relying on the great addition this army will make to strengthen the allies in the joint struggle for free civilization and we are confident, that when the time of battle comes they will sustain the great traditions set by their own forbearers tw helping to win complete triumph Tor the cause to which they have dedicated theim elves.” •