DOMINION SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1917, Page 7

DOMINION SOLDIERS.

MILLION MEN UNDER ARMS. London, April 2. At the luncheon given to-day to the Dominions' War Cabinet representatives by the members of the. House of Commons, Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, remarked that 1,000,000 men .from the overseas Dominions had enlisted. During tlie past twenty months the strength of Canadian contingents had incieased from 7."),000 to 400,f10p, and over 300,000 had gone, overseas. The Germans wore fighting in desperation under tne delusion that we were seeking to crush Germany and terminate her national existence. This was never the British intention. It was impossible to crush a nation of 70.000,000 people, but dormant must be taught that military aggression was neither a profitable nor a legitimate business, and that the world's conscience would not tolerate the ruthless violation of the liberties of small nations. The British Constitution, Sir Robert added, was the most flexible instrument of government ever devised. He believed that the Imperial War Cabinet indicated a line of Constitutional development in tlie immediate future, and he discerned therein the birth of a now and greater Imperial Commonwealth.