AMERICANS IN THE CANADIAN ARMY.
THE OFFICIAL FIGURES. cans serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, so many exaggerated statements have been made that the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence lias issued an official statement. Tn reply to lite inquiry of a corresponds. the'military secretary of the Department writes: "Up to December 31. lftlfi, for which full returns are compiled, the total Americans, in accordance with attestation papers, enlisted in units of the C.E.l'', which have gone overseas numbered exactly 7373. '"These figures include both United States citizens who came over specially to enlist- and also Canadians who had been born in the United States, but Viad been living in Canada for many years prior to enlistment." Fifty thousand was the number given by at least one American writer, who was plainly misinformed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1917, Page 6
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133AMERICANS IN THE CANADIAN ARMY. Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1917, Page 6
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