CANADIAN AID

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20045, 18 September 1939, Page 11

CANADIAN AID

ON IMPRESSIVE SCALE FOOD AND MUNITIONS MEN RALLY TO COLOURS 1914-18 SERVICE RECALLED (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 2 p.m RUGBY. Sept. 15. The splendid contribution of Canada, both in men and material to the Great War in 1914-18, recalled in a statement issued by the Ministry of Information, according to which men in Canada are again flocking to the same colours for the same cause Already one Canadian Parliament has sanctioned millions of pounds for the prosecution of the new war. That she will bring to her great task all the vigour, resolution and enterprise that contributed so notably to the victory of the British arms in 1918, is already manifest. But it seems, in a material sense, that Canada will be able to piay her part on a still more impressive scale than in her industrial-immature days of 1914 —although she was well able even then to pay from her own pocket every cent of the cost of her participation.

High Wheat Production Canada, since the Great War, has increased the production of wheat from 64,000,000 to 450,000,000 bushels. Besides wheat, Canada is a valuable source of supply of many foodstuffs and war materials. What Canada’s contribution in the matter of personnel may be in the present war is for her to determine. The last time, from her comparatively small population she enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force no fewer than G 20.000. Gratitude for Loyalty His Majesty has expressed appreciation of loyal messages from Ceylon. NDeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika Territory, Northern Rhodesia. British Honduras and Leeward Islands.

An expression of the King's gratitude has also been conveyed to the chief rabbis of Palestine for their message of “heartfelt blessings and the fervent prayers of Palestine Jewry for Britain’s victory in her heroic stand for right against might and ultimate peace.” Another fervent message of loyalty has arrived from the Bahamas.