CANADA.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1917, Page 5

CANADA.

INACTION OR HELP? ; CANADA'S DECISION. TO HELP HER SOLDIERS. . Ottawa, Dec.| IS. The Canadian press, with .the exception of that of Quebec, welcomes the result of the election.as a. great moral upheaval of the national conscience. The issue wa« one between the policy of "wait and see," while soldiers died, or of sending immediate aid. Canada has answered overwhelmingly that she will help her soldiers, therefore she is upholding hety proud position of the greatest overseab 'Dominion. The latest returns show that only three of Sir W. Laurier's supporters were elected in West Ontario. Mr. Blondin, Postmaster-General, and Mr. Sevigny, Minister of Lands and Revenue, were defeated m Quebec province. The other Ministers were elected. Mi". .Foster, Minister of Trade and Commerce, obtained a record majority of 14,000. CANADA'S MESSAGE tO THE WORLD. TO FIGHT OX TILL VICTORY. Reecived Dec. 19, 11.15 p.m. Ottawa, Dec. 18. Sir Robert Borden, in a statement, anticipates a majority of fifty in the new parliament. The soldiers' vote may increase the majority to sixty. The Liberals were equally responsible with the Conservatives for' Canada*!* magnificent, ipsponse. Than the severe sacrifices compulsory military service entails there was no greater trial for modern democracy. The result was a triumphant refutation of those who contend that democracy was unable to rise to the heights of a great issue. Canada's message would bring encouragement to every Dominion within the limits of the British commonwealth, proclaiming to them as well as to" the enemy Canada's invincible determination to fight until the wild bfhst of German militarism has been subdued.

AUSTRQGERMANY. THE FORCE OF EXAMPLE. y •-'■■■;* FOR DISTRIBUTION OF LAND. ' Berne, Deo. 18. Urzal, a Czech deputy, moved a resolution in the Austrian Chamber demanding the division of land among the peasant?. He argued that since Austria and Germany had recognised Maximalists and fraternised with them they should adopt the principles of communism, which formed the basis of the Maximalist programme. NO "PUERILE SENTIMENTALITY." EXACTING THE UTMOST FROM RUSSIA. Received Dec, .20, 12.45 a.m. Berne, Dec. 18. The German press, in welcoming the armistice, adjures the Government to manifest no puerile spirit of sentimentality during the negotiations, but to exact from the Russians all that is necessary for the greatness and prosperity of the German Empire, and to insist on keeping a high liand on the Baltic provinces, dictating conditions making it impossible for a repetition of the famine such as the Central Empires have undergone during the last three years.