HEROISM OF CANADIANS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 300, 28 May 1915, Page 7

HEROISM OF CANADIANS.

"\VE HAVE DONE THE TRICK." The magnificent conduct of the Canadians is almost the sole topic in the Canadian press, says an Independent Cable message from Vancouver received in Vancouver last week. The special correspondent with the. Canadians pictures a little, town at the rearward of the firing line still crowded with wounded swathed ill field dressings, smiling through their bandages, cheerful and proud. They were sitting" along a platform awaiting their turn to be taken to the hospitals. "We have done the trick!" they shout, and marching men, many of them British. veterans, swinging towards that never-ceasing Bedlam of shells, yell back: "You have" and cheer and cheer in. Wounded British soldiers returning to the London hospitals unreservedly praise the Canadian courage and tenacity. The Canadian position was on a promontory in the area operated over by the German attack. When the Germans commenced to fall hack they may, it is suggested, have been able to enfilade them. A thousand Canadians should have been made prisoners, but they won their freedom. That may be partly due to their amateurishness. The moral effects of the German attack and the early success made by the Canadians had 'furiously roused tlieni to efforts, which in ordinary circumstances they might have been incapable of. They felt that at last they had an opportunity of proving to the Germans that they had miscalculated once again. They acted accordingly. They stood up to the old British tradition which every opposing general has cursed throughout history, that of never knowing when they were beaten. By all the rules of warfare, apparently the Canadians were beaten, but they did not know it. They sull'ered terrible; casualties, gave as good as tliey got, and eventually turned the tables ou their foes.