TRIBUTES TO CANADA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1939, Page 5

TRIBUTES TO CANADA

PAID BY BRITISH PRESS A NOBLE REINFORCEMENT. DEMONSTRATION OF CLOSE UNITY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 20. The arrival of the Canadian troops in Britain is the occasion of warm tributes by the Press to the enthusiasm which the Dominion brings to the Allied cause and of the close companionship of the British Commonwealth in the war which it demonstrates. "The Times” emphasises that the troops were entirely recruited by voluntary enlistment and that the Frenchspeaking Canadians rallied as eagerly as the English-speaking Canadians. "They constitute,” adds "The Times.” “a citizen force from every province and all classes and sections coming to tight in defence of liberty and the values they know to be at stake. "It was an undesigned coincidence that the arrival took place on the very day on which in Ottawa an agreement was signed to establish in the Dominion a great Empire air training organisation, planned to turn oui some tens of thousands or trained airmen every year, and thus, by co-oper-ative effort, to win for the Allies predominance in the air similar to that which.nhey already enjoy at sea." "The Manchester Guardian" says: “Admirable energy and resolution have been shown by Canada in dealing with the embarrassing rush of recruits for service overseas that have been so swiftly organised into an expeditionary force, supplied’and embarked amid all the other demands that war has made on the Dominion. The men who have now reached Europe herald a contribution on land and in the air by which the strength of the Allies will be nobly reinforced.”

AIRCRAFT SQUADRON ATTACHED TO THE CANADIAN DIVISION. OTTAWA. December 20. The Defence Minister, Mr Rogers, announced that the first Canadian division will be supported in the field by a squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force and a specialised corps totalling 6000 to 7000 men. The No. 110 City of Toronto Squadron has been selected as the specialised corps. It includes medium and field artillery, an artillery survey unit, engineer, signal and hospital units, and a dental company.