3 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 14

The Prime Minister on Monday moved that the thanks of

the House be given to the officers and men of the Navy and the Army, of the forces from overseas, and of the mercantile marine, and that the House " doth acknowledge with grateful admiration the valour and devotion of those who have offered their lives in the service of their country." Mr. Lloyd George's long and interesting speech opened with an eloquent and well-deserved tribute to the Navy, which " was like one of those internal organs, essential to life but of the existence of which we were not conscious until some. thing went wrong." The Navy, he said, "had been the anchor of the Allied cause." If the Grand Fleet had had little opportunity of fame, that was its merit, as well as a proof that the enemy admitted its supremacy.