The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SEŢLER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1915. NOVA SCOTIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 73, 25 November 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SEŢLER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1915. NOVA SCOTIA.

An American 1 correspondent who visited Nova Scotia recently was especially interested in the serious aspect of the war held by all the people. At the time of his visit to Halifax, the capital, he found it as much a war city as any in Britain. The great harbor is fenced off with a steel net hung from floats across its lower part to prevent the access of submarines, and with a gate opened only for the passage of certified vessels, while in the inner harbor are a fleet of warships, both British and French, and the streets are thronged with sailors on leave. The dockyard facilities and the great dry dock make Halifax.a specially good naval headquarters and coaling station. On the great Hat plain of the common, more than a square mile in area, usually the people's playground, were numerous recruits being broken into drill, while in one coiner were a couple of hundred new tents for the gathering of a new battalion being assembled from various parts of the province. The numerous forts were all garrisoned by native militia, and the newspapers gave prominence to the honor roll of. Nova Scotians killed or wounded at the front. The sounds of bugles, the time guns tired from the citadel at 12 noon and 9.30 p.m., the electric searchlights sweeping the bay and suburbs at night, the many devices and enterprises to aid in raising the cost of machine guns or comforts for the soldiers, such as "tag days,' on which everyone is expected to buy a tag to hang from his coat button from one of the many little girls posted on all the streets, all give evidence that the people are doing their best to shew their patriotism. The population of Halifax is over fifty thousand souls and it is growing rapidly.