A WORD FROM AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1918, Page 2

A WORD FROM AMERICA.

ADVERTISE NEW ZEALAND, VISIT OF DOMINION TROOPS SUGGESTED. "In tlio United States everyone lias a flag, and those with boys at the, front have a special flag with a star for each boy in the Army and Navy," writes ' a New Zealander who is at present in the United States. "The States believe in plenty of display, loud tall;:, and plenty of confidence—"wait-till-we-are-ready" sort of talk. Canada is grim and determined to win.. U.S.A. is smiling and saying, 'Wo are going to lick the Hun if it takes 15 million men and 100 billion dollars. It has cost us 10 billion now, and is costing 40 million a, day. We are calling 300,000 this ■month, registering one and "a half million-more; 2,800,000 men have joined -and are in training and in Franee-~not bad for a year. We have spent 480,000,000 on aeroplanes, and you- will- soon hea> about them." "The Americans have just put over their Liberty loan. They asked for three billion and got four and a-half. They had 100 blue-clad :. soldiers from France in New York to. help the loan and also 500 wonderful Australians, w%q took New York by storm. The people went mad over them, and they were a fine husky lot of men, too. New Zealand should send a ship through the Canal with 500 New Zealanders in time to help with the fourth loan. It would be a wonderful advertisement for New Zealand. Millions of people in New York don't know New Zealand is on the map at all. Send big men. Australians and Canadians tell rao the New Zealanders are the finest troops in France—best dressed, best behaved, and best looking, Five hundred New Zealand troops well dressed marching up Broadway would be worth a million to New Zealand, and would be worth millions to the Allied cause. Americans don't know New Zealand even exists, and as for New Zealand being in the war • well, they don't even know that white people live there. "New Zealand wants population, wealth, and good customers for her products, etc. America is near and has plenty of money, so I say if Mr Maasey would send a ship with, say, 1000 New Zealanders to New York via the Panama Canal, and have them land the month the loan drive is on, lie would do a wonderful thing for New Zealand and the Allied cause. It would tell millions of Americans that New Zealand is a. wonderful country. The newspapers all over would print the history of New Zealand in the war and tell of the sacrifices she has made. They would show through the moving pictures that America must at least do as much, as New Zealand. Germany has told Americans for 25 years that the British cplonies were a down-trodden lot, on the verge of revolt, that the peoples of ths colonies were kept in ignorance and ground down by England. Millions believe it yet—believe England is a hungry wolf grabbing all t'hs land she can and treating her colonics like dogs. Ireland is held up as the awful example. I have travelled over most of the United States and talked to people in towns large and small, also to farmers by hundreds from Maine to Califoroi* and I say to-day there are 60 million American people who believe that England is in the war for what she can get out of it in the way of colonies. They believe that England has forced the colonies to do the fighting, and that they arc tired, but England ma'es them fight on and denies them liberty. A thousand New Zealanders marehing up Broadway with a > T ""- Zealand flag, big free men, from a free country, would show America that England gave her children liberty not equalled anywhere in the world, and would show that her sons, England's sons, free men, come of their own free will four* teen thousand miles to fight for freedom, the same freedom Americans fight for. America and the British Empire must stand together to beat the Hun, but before you can get the full confidence of Americans you must show them and prove to them that the German lies when they said that England forced her colonies to fight, forced them, to pay taxes, and that the colonies are not in sympathy with the Mother Country."