Canada

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 5, 7 January 1915, Page 5

Canada

RECRUITING ENTHUSIASM. United Pbess Association. Ottawa, January 6. There is great recruiting enthusiasm in Canada. There are 125,000 men now training, while recruiting for the third contingent has not yet started. MR BORDEN'S IMPERIALISM. Ottawa, January 6. Many newspapers interpret Mr Borden's repent statement as a substantial declaration in favour of some form of organic federation. Canadian Imperialists, with whom Mr Borden is believed to be in sympathy, are convinced that there is a point where colonial autonomy i s hardly distinguishable from separation. The supreme immediate problem before the Imperial statesmen is to combine the energies and resources of the Empire in common purposes.

I It seems, that a Canadian soldier in [England wrote to one of the papers asking for a gramaphono and some records for the soldiers. The request, however, brought forth « number of indignant communications from other men of the Canadian contingent. They all protested against any member of their contingent begging anything in the Mother-country, and declared that the suggestion was likely to give people in Great Britain a wrong idea, of the spirit in which they had come to fight for the Empire. * "We have come to fight for our Motherland, and not to beg gramaphones," they ono and all declared.