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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 15, 1940.

THE BRITISH AT WAR: THE EMPIRE'S SHARE

By VISCOUNT SAMUEL

Never in all history has there been | are being made ready for dispatch so strange a donstruction as the Bri-'overseas; some have already arrived tish Empire. Covering a fourth of in England. In the last war, Canada the land area of the earth and com- | furnished 400,000, soldiers, although prising a fourth of its inhabitants, at that time the Province of Quebec, this so-called Empire bears no re- was half-hearted. To-day, if need semblance at all to any of the uni- be, she would certainly send at least form military States which have

as many, and probably far more. borne that title in the past. Includ- ing every variety of race, it includes Australia and New Zealand, from also every kind of constitution. Un-the first hour, have been keen to help der the shape of a monarchy its lead-in every way. In both Dominions ing members enjoy the fullest de- the whole nation is of one mind on mocracy. There are many colonies the merits of the issue and the duty with mixed constitutions-representa- to take part. Here again there are tive Councils combind with central immense supplies of food-stuffs and to be drawn upon. control

raw materials There are primitive com-

Government munities which are still under the The United Kingdom rule of Governors. In Asiatic and has bought the whole of the Austra- African territories there are hun-lian and New Zealand wool-clips, dreds of Princes and Chiefs, exercis- and a large proportion of their me- ing the sovereignty traditional in tals, wheat, dairy produce and meat. their lands. The participation of In addition, through the ordinary the Empire in the present war re-trade channels will come great quan- flects the variety of its composition. tities of other materials needed for war purposes. The Australian Gov- The United Kingdom of Greaternment has recently announced that Britain and Northern Ireland bears sales to the value of £100,000,000 the chief responsibility and provides have already been made. Early in most of the military, industrial and the New Year the first division of financial resources. But it is not troops is expected to arrive from always realized that, of the white Australia, and the first New Zealand population of the British Empire, a force as well. The gallant part play- third lives and works in the five ed by a ship of the New Zealand great self-governing Dominions. For navy, Achilles, in the famous battle every two people in the United King-with the Graf Spee, is known to all dom there is another in the Domin- | the world. ions. Fully self-governing, free from the last vestige of the old control from London, each one shaping its own course in its own way through its own

Ministry and Parliament, which is of equal status with the Ministry and Parliament at West- minster-the Dominions differ in their contributions to the total effort.

Throughout the

Commonwealth the vital importance of air-power is fully realized. Preparations are be- ing made for the launching of air- fleets, which, if the war lasts and the need is there, may number tens of Prime thousands of planes. The Minister of Australia has announced that his Government alone propose Canada is whole-heartedly in the to recruit 10,000 pilots, and 15,000 War. At the outset there was doubt | other flying officers; and there is no as to the attitude of the great pro- doubt that the men will be forthcom- vince of Quebec. Its population ing. An agreement has been made largely French and strongly Catholic, | between the. · Governments of Quebec has always had its own point the United Kingdom, Canada,

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for of view. The Provincial Govern Australia and New Zealand ment that was in office was luke- а joint Air Training Scheme, be- warm, indeed cold, favouring absten- under which schools are

each of those tion. In October a general election ing established in took place which clearly showed the Dominions, and final training schools, feeling of the people. It resulted in sixty-seven of them, in Canada, a crushing defeat for that Govern- where the conditions are eminently ment, and its replacement, with a suitable. Already a Canadian fighter majority, by a new Administration, squadron, and an-Australian bomber. pledged to bring Quebec into full squadron are taking their places in co-operation with the rest of the the first line of the air defences of of Dominion.

Great Britain; while a number individual airmen from the Domin- ions have won great distinction in

air combats the

been that have fought.

of all The resources of Canada, kinds, are vastly greater now than at the beginning of the last war. The capital invested in Industry, the acreage under wheat, the exports, have all more than doubled. The Canadian production of nickel--a vital requirement in modern war, has multiplied fivefold; it constitutes nearly nine-tenths of the world's supply. Gold has multiplied sixfold, and now shares second place in the world's production. All these re- sources, and many others, can be drawn upon to meet the vast war requirements of Britain and France. As yet there is no demand for great numbers of men to take the field. Two divisions of Canadian soldiers

In South Africa there is not the same unanimity. Among the large Boer population a considerable part, nursing the memory of past unhappy conflict with Great Britain, are un- willing to enter the present war at her side. Nevertheless the voting in has the freely-elected Parliament shown a substantial majority in fa- Gov- vour of participation. The

that was in office ernment has

reconstituted accord- illustrious ingly,

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