ver this might be, in all parts of the world the word of an
Englishman was still as good as his bond. ("Hear, hear.") Yet
England, with its strikes and quarrels and class hatred, and one
thing and another, was not at its best. It was well to admit that,
just as they admitted the faults of those they loved best.

Had any one of them failed to rally round the flag? Had they kept
anything back in this great war? She hoped not. The war had tested
us more than anything else, and we had responded greatly to it; and
the young manhood had come out in a way that was remarkable. We
knew very well that when the war was begun we were quite unprepared
for it; but she would tell them this, that our army, although
small, was the finest army that ever took the field. (Applause.)

Miss Macnaughtan then related a number of interesting incidents,
one of which was, that when a party of wounded Englishmen came to a
station where she was tending the Belgian wounded, every wounded
Belgian gave up his bed to accommodate an English soldier. The idea
of a German occupation of English soil, she said, was the idea of a
catastrophe that was unspeakable. People read things in the papers
and thought they were exaggerated, but she had seen them, and she
would show photographs of ruined Belgium which would convince them
of what the Germans were now doing in the name of God. However
unprepared we were for war, the wounded had been well cared for,
and she thought there never was a war in which the care of the
wounded had been so well managed or so efficient. (Applause.) They
had to be thankful that there had been no terrible epidemic, and
she could not speak too highly of the work of the nurses and
doctors in the performance of their duties. This was the time for
every man to do his duty, and strain every nerve and muscle to
bring the war to an end and get the boys home again. (Applause.)

[Page Heading: SIR FRANCIS YOUNGHUSBAND, K.C.I.E.]

Sir Francis Younghusband, K.C.I.E., spoke of Miss Macnaughtan as a
very old friend, whom he had met in many parts of the Empire. In
this crisis she might well have stayed at home in her comfortable
residence in London, but she had sacrificed her own personal
comforts in order to assist others. They must realise that this war
was something much more