Sir Erie Geddes, the new Fast Lord of the Admiralty,
addressed his constituents at Cambridge last Saturday. Ile told his audienoe that he was making the first speech in his life. It was true that he had been a railway porter, and he was very proud of it. His regard for the railwaymen of England had been intensified by whet he had seen of their work in France. As for his record, ho had worked since he was seventeen ; had never played much or long ; and had worked harder in the last three years than ever before. As for polities, the little he ever had he had forgotten in the munition factories in France, in the dockyards, and with the Fleets. It was what he saw in France that gave him his determination that nothing mattered but to go on with the war till the end. The destruction of the German Army was going on daily, especially in their moral, but the end was not yet in sight. We could not stop now, for any peace we could get to-day would be of no use at all.
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