A WORD FROM AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 240, 28 June 1918, Page 6

A WORD FROM AMERICA

ADVERTISE-NEW ZEALAND VISIT OF DOMINION TROOPS SUGGESTED "In the United States everyono has a flag, and those with boys at the front have a special flag with n star for each boy in the Army and Navy,'' writes a New ZeaUindcr who is at present in the United States. "The States beiieve in plenty of display, loud talk, and plenty of confidence—"wait-till-we-are-rcady" sort of talk. Canada is grim and determined to win. U.S.A. is smiling and saying, 'Wo are going to lick the Hun if it takes 15 million men and 100 billion dollars. It lias cost us 10 billion now, and is costing 10 million a day. We are calling 300,0u0" this month, registeriug one and a half million more; 'J,SOfI,OOO men have joined and are in training and in France—not bad lor a year. "We have spent -150 million on aeroplanes, and you will soon hear about them.'

"The Americans ,have just put over their third Liberty Loan. They asked for three billion and got four und a half. They had 100 blue-clad soldiers from France in Now York to help the loan and also 500 wonderful Australians, who took iNew York by storm. The people went mad over them, and they were a fine husky lot of men, too. New Zealand should send a ship through the Canal with 500 New Zeaianders in time to help with the fourth loan. It would be a wonderful advertisement for New Zealand. .Millions of people in Nmy York don't know New Zealand is on the map at all. fiend liig men. Australians and Canadians te.l ine the Zeaianders are the finest troops in France—best dressed, best behaved, and best looking. Five hundred New Zealand troops well dressed marching up Broadway would be worth a million to New Zealand, and be worth millions to the Allied cause. Americans don't know New Zealand even exists, and as for Now Zealand 1 being in the war, well, they don't even know- that white people,live there. * "New Zealand wants population, wealth, and good customers for her products, etc. America is near and has plenty of money, so I 6ay if Mr. Massey would send a ship with, say, 1000 New Zeaianders to New York via the Panama Canal, and have them land the month the loan drive is on, he would do a wonderful thing for Nav Zealand and the Allied cause. It would tell millions of Americans that Now Zealand is a wonderful country. The newspapers all over would print the history of New Zealand in the war and tell of the sacrifices she has made. They would show through the moving pictures that America must at least .do as much as New Zealand. Germany has told Americans for 25 years that the British colonies wero a downtrodden lot, on the verge of revolt, that the peoples of the colonies wero kept in ignorance and ground down by England. Alillions believe it yet—believe England is a hungry wolf grabbing all the land she can and treating her colonies like dogs. Ireland is heid up as the awful example. I have travelled over most of the United States and talked to people in towns large and small, also to farmers by hundreds from Maine to California, and I say to-day there are 60 million American people who beliove that England is in the war for what sho cm get out of it in the way of colonies. They believe that England'has forced the colonies to do the fighting, and that they are tired, ,but that England makes them fight on and denies them liberty.. A thousand New Zeaianders marching up Broadway with a New Zealand flag, big free men, from a free country, would show America that England gave her children liberty not' equalled /anywhere in the world, and would show' that her sons. England's sons, free men, como of. their own free will fourteen thousand miles to fight for freedom, the snmo freedom Americans fight for. America and the British Empire must stand together to beat the Hun, but before, vju can get the full confidence of Americans you must show them and prove to them that tho Germans lied when they said England forced her colonies to fight, forced them to pay taxes, and that the colonies are riot in sympathy with the Mother Country."