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THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH.

THE WAR SPIRIT IN CANADA

BY

J. P. GERRIE

(IN THE AMERICAN.REVIEW OF REVIEWS)

is essentially peace cause is, therefore, peculiarly our loving and peace-living. The own. absence of forts, defenses, and. · The Canadians Troops Have every semblance of militarism on

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1915.

the universities do as some of them situation. Accordingly the Go- with one another in contributing land special modifications have so as to secure that, as far ar por do in England, and train men for vernor-General invited "repre- their quota. Though a voluntary been introduced dispensing with sible, a sufficient number of form commissions in the army, McGill sentative citizens from all over organisation, it is yet through its the obligation to state whether shall be left at every dwellin University, Montreal, alone took Canada to meet in conference in act of incorporation responsible the person registering is skilled house within their registrulica the matter up in lecturs codes, Ottawa. The immediate outcome to the Minister of Militia for re- in, and able and willing to per-district, and shall also give but so wanting was the military was the formation of the Canadian ports of the work performed, but form any work other than the public notice sa to the places spirit that at the end of six years' Patriotic Fand with headquarters no report can detail the far-reach-work (if any) at which he is at within the registration discion effort six men in that institution in that city, and the Finance ing influences of its ministra the time employed, and if so the where forms can be obtained. qualified, or an average of one a Minister of the Dominion as tions. year.

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nature thereof." The application to Ireland is also subject to an Order by the Lord Lieutenant which it shall be applied. specifying the ares or areas to

The Isle of Man and the Chan

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(3) The local authority shall also make arrange registration

prescribed manner and within the ments for the collection, in the prescribed times, of forme when filed up and signed.

or corrected.

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treasurer. Branches have bean War breaking out, the eighteen organised from the Atlantic to the Country Before Party! universities and the many colleges Pacific, and from the boundary responded sa one. Queen's Uni- line to the most northerly centre,

And now as to present feeling versity of Kingston, which had and are giving splendid service, From the very first Canada was standing, sent a force of 170 ferent points in reotaiting and but never with the tremendous the Bill. In the case of the lele of an Engineers' Corps of five years' Because of the inequality of dif- heart and soul in the struggle, nel Islands are not included in students to drain and settle the subscribing, the general principle seriousness of now, and never Man it will be possible to enforce Samp at Valcarter for the First has been adopted to raise what with so unwavering confidence of it under the Act passed last year hority shall cause the forme when 5. The local registration aut "a 3000-mile. border line of a Accordingly, when war broke Contingent. Upwards of 158 you can and draw what you need." sbeoluta triumph se to-day. Aby which emergency measures of filled up twelve to one indicates this. The frid Laurier was made good, that the teaching staff are already in smaller places have aubsoribed with her, her allies even to the island by Order in Council. In appear to be incomplete or country which outnumbers or out a former utterance of Sir Wilshad oats and sighs momberg of In this "raising "many of the great nation running amok, and this kind can be extended to the mine, and migned to be ex

two lande was first publicly pro-ada.ie at war." This the veteran yet go from the training corps of divídual, while five large eastern and massacre,alienating every system Areoted, and may take such atapa Centenary of peace between the" When England is at War Can active service, while others will from one to seven dollars per in-"Unspeakable Tark," in murder the Channel Islande, where the incorrect to be completed or cor posed by one of our rising young ex-Premier supplemented in Par. 250 undergraduates organised cities promptly responded with a vestige of sympathy from the service in statesmen, the Hon. W. Mackenzie liament at the time of the outlast November. McGill at once subscription list of $3,500,000. neutral powers, cannot but be partial register of the male po- enable such completion of

gives a

88 appear to them necessary to King, in an address on receiving break with the stirring slogan, provisional regiment of 1200 instalment plan, but the actual opposing forces is terrible, and and 45-it only applies to natives where it appears to the loa took the matter up, organising a Many of the payments are on the broken in pieces. The cost to the palation between the ages of 16orrection to be effected, and his Ph.D. degree from Harvard a Ready, aye, ready," while the few years ago. The proposal has present Premier, Sir Robert Bor- KON,

100 cash in sight up to the end of the Canada has had her baptism ef of the islanda or British subjects registration authority that no form up of been enthusiastically taken up, den, rang out the assuring mess- membera

of the teaching year in addition to what has al- blood, but she is ready to pay the who have resided in the island for has been returned or that the form and very fervent utterances have age of office,-"We await the faculty, 200 gradustes, and 900ready been received will amount price and will emerge from the two years-it will bo for the looslreturned cannot be completed or been heard from both countries issue with confidence," nor has undergraduates. Of these 150 to at least $3,900,000.

conflict a better Canada. She will Parliaments to decide whether corrected without the personal that never again will a hostile shot this confidence over wavered in the way thither or in preparation Newfoundland, French, Belgian, ed the lesson of peace that she has The following is the full text of ed, they may require his attend-

are already abroad, 100 more on In the drawing," British, stand in a world which has learn they will adopt the Act. be fired across the line," nor an Parliament or country. With one

attendance of the person concern- invading forceenter either border. voice both parties voted a prelito go, while two more groups of Russian, and Servian reservists in sought long to know, in learning the Bill We have confidence in our neigh minary war appropriation of students will speedily follow. In the Dominion all stand upon war no more. Her many diverse

A Bill For the compilation of time as they may appoint and it ance at such place and at such bours and they in as..

$50,000,000, Enlisting began,

addition to all this, subscriptions equal footing with the distinctive peoples, through a oneness of in- National Register. Neither was there any thought steady, pure, enthusiastic. The is expected will yet be raised to the apportionment, the family, ing, will find common ground se most Excellent Majesty by and to attend, and to answer auch of $25,000 have been made which y Canadian enlistment, and interests, and community of suffer. Be it enacted by the King's whose attendance is ao required aball be the duty of every person of war with Germany. Many First Contingent of 31,200 men, $50,000. Toronto University had need, and location will be deter never in the past. With a new with the advies and consent of questions as may be addresand thousands from that land are law nearly 10,000 more than was last session from 1800 to 2000 mining factors. Co-operation is love and interest she will view the the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, to him for the purpose of enabling abiding, industrious oitizens, and geated by the Army Connoil, mp students in training, while already had with the Soldiers and Sailors multitudes of immigrants from and Commous, in this present the form to be filled up, completed no "olasa of non-Anglo-Saxon biliged at Valoartier, Quebec, by people have been more cordially September let; the "middle of 307 are enlisted in active service. Association in England, the her allied nations who will Parliament assembled, and by the welcomed to the Dominion, To October saw them at Salisbury will be sufficient to say that all tion at New England, and the bled feelings. Nor will there be

And so we might go on, but it British Imperial Relief Associa worthily reciprocate these enno-authority of thesame, as follows:- date these people are largely ae Plaine, England, and a like date the other universities are making Canadian Society in New York, other than kindly feelings toward of all persons, male and female, where necessary, completed and 6. After the return by a person 1. A register shall be formed of a filled up and signed, and before. There is no apparent February most of them in difference in their attitude to our-France and

front proportionate contributions sc. Like committees are planned for the German and Austrian people between the ages of fifteen and corrected form, in accordance with solves, nor in ours to them. A "A magnificent lot of men cording to ability and size. From other centres such as Chicago; St. as a whole. Our quarrel is not sixty-five (not being members of this Act, there shall be supplied to young German, a little more than General Sir John French's sati- the nine or ten thousand men in Louis, San Francisco, Detroit, and with them as a people. When sny of His Majesty's naval forces him a certificate of registration proached the writer at the out- borne out by their heroic stand at more than five thousand are under represented by present and former over they will have time to think, territorial forces) subject to the served by him. a year from his fatherland, ap-mate of them, and this has been more diversos it is estimated that other cities where Canada is well the rage and fury of the war is or of His Majesty's regular or which shall be signed, and break of the war, sad expressed Ypres-Langematche where, ac military training, and this does citizens. In the bestowal of the and in no far future day they will exceptions mentioned in this Act.7-(1) Il any person registered concern about an expected ankind cording to the report of the War not include the theological and funda every semblance of charity come again to the land which so 2. The Registrar General Bot under this Aot changes his place attitude toward himself. He was Office, they saved the situation."other colleges, who have alas is eliminated, inasmuch as every many of their own countrymen ing under the directions of the of residence he shal, unless such answered that he was here to be a Very stirring are the English given freely up to fifty per cent. loyal Canadian feels himself under now love so wOILA AIBAR A Local Government Board shall be change is merely temporary, with Canadian, and as shoh to attend pictorial illustrations of these and of their number. Thus it is obligation to make some contri- In the meantime the fiery fur- the central registration authority, in 28 daya thereafter send or to his own business in the usual subsequent engagements. Pun that Canada is giving her beat inbution either in enlisting, or in nace, seven times hosted in a and the Common Council of the deliver to the looal, registration way and no one would molest him, gives a full-page picture of a

Baby, intellect, and woul donating from his mesus. The common cause with our allied City of London, and the councils I have met him on several occa young soldier standing beside The Young Men's Ohristian tion to the self-sacrifice of women, the Melting Pot" which the boroughs, and of urban and rural

Service of the Y. M. C. A

fand is, therefore, a just obliga- forces will give new intensity to of metropolitan and municipal zions since that date, and machine gun amid breaking again as I write this paragraph heļ shells, with tattered uniform, head Association likewise calls for and dependents of the men at the Dominion das, come to be. Her districts, and the Council of the certificate of registration with the

special mention. A recent copy front many of whom will never varied peoples, welded by a com- Scilly Islands, shall be the local of the British Weeldy is unspar return for their support. This mon suffering, joined in the one registration authorities for their place of residence noted ing in its commendation of this self-sacrifice will, in many cases, ness of conflict, will be indissolub-respective arass, and each such thereon, and there shall be sup service in the Old Land. Like be infinitely more than that of ly united in the pathways of ares shall be a separate registra registration, and if his new place plied to him a fresh certificate of tributes are earned for Association those who give liberally of their peace, together shey make a tion district, Conta work among the soldiers in Cana-means, so that charity in banished more prosperous and better Cans 3. It shall be the duty of the triot from that in which the pre-

of residence is in a different dia de. The day war was declared from the minds of both the giver da. And more, there has been local registration authority, in se vions place of residence wa between England and Germany and the recipient.

the burying of party rancour and cordance with instructions issued situste, the local registration the machinery was ast in mo

Red Cross Work.

strife of type never to be rear by the Local Government Board, authority receiving the certificate |tion. ́ ́Eight efficient secretaries The Red Cress has likewise won

rected: In the old land, Liberal to compile and maintain the re-shall communicate the change to were speedily on the grounds at for itself an enviable name.

At and Unionist, Nationalist and gister so far as it relates to their the local registration authority of Valcartier helping with mobilias the very beginning of the war Lshourite are one in the straggle, ares, to tabulate the contents the last-mentioned district, and tion, and from a large central the organisation became more A coalition government of the thereof and to make them avail the change shall be noted in the marquee rendering all manner of busy, and has continued on its best is at the nation's helm. In able for such purposes as may be registers order Pictures in the Illustrated Lon service for the men. Subsequent way with ever-increasing useful- Canada we have something of the prescribed, sad to furnish to the

(2) Within 28 days after the don News and other periodicals camps all over Canada have been mees. A centre was at an open abste af de in the opposition central registration authority and arrival in the United Kingdom of are equally eloquent in their tri has also given free use of the came the recipient of all manner ciem, and responding with their such returns therefrom as may be aforesaid, he shall, if not previous manned by the Association, which ed in London, England, which be abstaining from all under orifi- to other Government Departments any person between such age as batos to Canadian worth and local buildings for gymnastic, of articles from the Dominion for best in co-operation and counsel. required, heroism. Following the First bathing, swimming, and other sick and wounded soldiers. In the usual course of eventa, too,(1) For the purpose of en- local registration authority,

ly registered, send or deliver to [Contingent a Second and Third This was before our marvellous whom will probably be on the soldiers in these particulare has for a hospital at Taplow, a score at hand, and much as the veteran piled it shall be the duty of every arrival, together with the parti

were soon mobilized, most of purpose. The response of the Among these were full equipments a general election would be near abling such a register to be compost or otherwise, notice development and the sounding of way to the front or actually there struction has also been given in sums of money for undesignated this but for the war, he now says: the prescribed time to fill up and by this Act to be registered, on1

been large and continuous. In of motor ambulance, and large ex-premier might have welcomed such person as aforesaid, within onlara concerning him our new national note. It is equal- before the reader sees these lines, colloquial French, First Aid to needs. Another hospital, the "No, I shall not unlock she door sign a form showing the following shall, if en required, attend 64 ly true to day. Nor did the fear The immediate goal is 108,000, the Injured, practical military Duchess of Conzaught's hospital, of office with the key of blood." particulars of Germany impel us to a part in which will be more than doubled training and gymnastics, and in was opened at Cliveden, where Shoulder to shoulder, heart to (a) name; place of residence; anthority may appoint, and ball such place and time as the the war. With the British fiect should the need arise. German other things contributing to Mr., Weldorf Astor gave the free heart, the two party leaders stand. age, whether single, married, or answer such questions as may intact no invasion from that atrocities, reported and confirmed, efficiency in soldier life. Nor use of Taplow Lodge and splendid It is not party but country firas, widowed; number of dependante addressed to him for the purpose quarter could be possible. Friend have been nodeterrent, but rather has the more distinctively re- grounds, and in addition made and with this splendid union of (if any), distinguishing wife, of enabling the necessary, parti ly relations with Japan preclude a mighty incentive,so also the ligions, been lost sight of, the costly obarges for hospital parties and of peoples, the Canads children, and other dependants; calars to be registered, and there danger from the Pacific, while the hideous massacre of the Lusit calls to which have been respond efficiency, while the Red Cross to be will be lifted high above the profession or occupation (if any); upon shall be supplied with Monroe Doctrine of the United ania's passengera,med, women, ad to with crowded houses and in Society supplied the equipment, Canads that has been, States, notwithstanding diecne and children. Canada's terrible other ways. It would be a long which is a marvel in its comp sions of pro and con, it is felt would casualty list incites a fresh spirit story to relats in detail the service leteness and efficiency. Canadian become operative in case of any of self-sacrifice and courage, and of the YM.C.A: in the camp life doctors and nurses are at the invasion for conquest. There is makes good Goldsmith's lines on of the Dominion, and its con helm and nothing is wanting a feeling, that the Young General Wolfe:

··Giant of the North 'would not be wanting in the event of such a home struggle.

in at the desk, and I find that the bandaged, triumphantly det er advice first given him has been mined, one hand holding aloft borne out in his every experience, his rifle on the muzzle of which There is no disposition to beget is bis soldier cap, while the other mistrust or strife with our German grasps the Canadian-British flag. citizens unless invited by their Underneath is the significant in-

scription: own conduct.

Why Canada Volunteered. And even after the war broke out there was no legal nor con- stitutional reason to call Canada into the war. In our relationship with England we have the fullest and freest autonomy, or as Kip ling put it, even as far back as 1807, in his

"Lady of the Snow":

"Daughter am I in my Mother's house, But mis- tress in my own.

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CANADA.!

Ypres : April 22-24, ID15.

E'en now thou conquerest

...... though dead,...

Bince from thy tomb a thous="

and heroes rise,

Active Part Taken by College Men

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authority of the district in which situate, by post or otherwise, hit the new place of residence is

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name and business address of certificate of registration. employer (if any), and nature of 8. The Local Government employer's business; and (in the Board may issue such instruction case of a person born abroad) as appear to them to be necess NATIONAL REGISTER. nationality, if not British; and

for carrying this Act into effect (4) whether the work on which and may by auch instructions he is employed is work for any prescribe Government Department or other

The Information Department TEXT OF THE MEASURE wie serving war purposes: (a) the manner in which the

tinuation with the men overseas which akill and experience can in the hands of the thirteen supply in caring for the sick and Becretaries who have journeyed suffering. It is not, therefore, a question

with the soldiers. of mere self-preservation from a

Generous Provision for facta as a medium between the last power whose autocracy and mili-

Soldiers" Families,

patient and the War Office and Loriam are the very antipodes of Some of the more specific fes most interesting feature of Can- relatives. So efficient is thie The Patriotic Fund is rightly a through the office with friends and Canadian life and ideals. The tares of the war spirit are of pada a relation to the war. Figures bureau that it calls forth the com- daughter responds to the mother's culiar interest. First of all may from the Contingent showed that mendation of the London proes in need. But more, Canade, though he mentioned the attitude of the over 50 per cent of the men had the words: "It is typical of Autonomone, is yet an integral colleges and universities. So for family relatives dependent upon Canadian thoroughness. At the Part of British Empire. The sign was the war "spirit prior to them. Separate and independent seat of war the service of the ideals and institutions, the free- the outbreak that there had been organisations were immediately mocisty has been no less signi dom and democracy are gubatan practically no military training of formed in many places for the float, while in Canada: the work tially one. Our two million any kind for many years. This, cars of these families. It soon gode on from cool to ocean with French-Canadian people and too, was in face of a request from became apparent that a cohesive unabated interest." Chu smany thousands of other citizens the Militia Department of the national organisation would much the press, organizati equally realize this. England's Dominion seven years ago that

more effectively cops with the kinds, and individuali

bus

THE CASE OF IRELAND.

the nature of the forms to be is register is to be compiled, and sued, and

(o) whether he is skilled in and able and willing to perform any work other than the work (if any) at which he is at the time employ authorities, and person

(b) the duties of re ed, and, if so, the nature thereof; by them under this

(d) such other particulars se (c) anything autho gistration Bill was issued on Jane (2) The central regietration9—(1) The

The text of the National Remay be prescribed.

30,31

Act to be pre authority shall cause forma to be Local Gover gistration of all persons, male and registration authorities, and every Ant female, between the ages of 15 local registration authority shall,

The Bill Provides for the re- prepared and leaned to the local Registrer

and 65 in England, Scotland, Ire in accordance with instruction land Wales, and the Scilly Is- from the Local Government Board

though in the case of Ire cause the forms to be distributed

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by this

and