Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-07
The Canadian Military Forces.

The Canadians have a very good army.
however. governed by a military council,
drilled and equipped like the British, with
an age limit and pensions There is
school for the education of officers at
Toronto. and factory where they manu-
| facture rifles, small arms gun carriages
| and other equipments of war.
The government purchased two British
| cruisers, which are Differed and manned
| by Canadians. and there is naval col
| ege at Halifax for the education of
| officers. Appropriations have been made
| and contracts have been let for the con-
| struction of a fleet of battleships, second
class cruisers, destroyers and submarines
entirely of Canadian material and work
manshtp. The plates Will be of Canadian
metal. and all machinery of Canadian
| manufacture, except the big guns, which
must be ordered in England
| There are 800 Canadian soldiers in the
garrison at Quebec tine-looking fellows,
| clad in khaki ad as near like the Tom
my Atkins that we see in Great Britain
as they can make themselves. even to
| the sWagser little stick they carry in
their hands. All they have to do is to
show visitors around and fire a gun at
sunrise. at high noon and at sunset.
/ Those are the only times when they have
smeled powder. Their greatest response
| bility seems to be the protection of the
| little Yankee gun on the platform in the
center of the parade ground. They seem
1 to be possessed of an insane suspicion
| that every American tourist goes there
| for the purpose of trying to recapture
| the trophy All strangers are carefully
watched. No visitors, not even children,
are allowed TO wander about without
guard at their side in the guise of a
guide. who. Of coul 10, expects a tip in
appreciation of his explanations. Dur
ing the summer months the soldiers of
the garrison, who take turns in the guide
business. make more from that source
than their monthly pay.
Two Trophies Taken by British.
The little Bunker Hill cannon is one of
two trophies held by the British army
as reminders Of its struggles with the
United States. The other is a rudeS
made flag. one of the first Stars and
Stripes that ever floated 1t belonged to
New Hampshire regiment, and. like
the little cannon. was also captured at
the battle of Bunker Hill by a regiment
from Chester, England, and it hangs in
the beautiful old cathedral in that city
near a memorial tablet erected to Fred
; erlck Phillipse, who was leading tory
| of New York at the time of the revolu-
| tions and at whose house, on the banks
| of the Hudson Benedict Arnold met and
conferred with Maj. Andre. 1t is curl
Gus coincidence that Mary Phillipse jilt
| ed George Washington. Otherwise she
| try. She afterward married a British
officer who had been with Washington in
| the Braddock campaign In western Penn
| sylvania. After the capture of Andre and
the exposure of the conspiracy Phillipse
abandoned his home and fed back to his
| old home in Chester. where he spent the
remainder of his life.
In the tower of London are several
long rows of cannon captured in battle
| and siege by the British army. They
| number several hundred and cover an
is carefully marked to.s show when, where
and from whom it was captured, and
every other nation with which England
| has been at war except the United States
| is represented.
| Parties of tourists who visit the tower
/ of London are always amused at the
observation of the Beef Eaters as the
soldiers of the guard at the tower are
1 called. and one day an American girl
| asked:
| How many of these cannon did you
| take from the United States?"
| Pretty near all of them" was the
reply.
''Then why don't you put labels on
| them"
| ITO save your feelings. miss"
| That's not the reason" retorted the
| impertinent young American. You're
| afraid we'd come over and take them
| back"
| The wife of a Canadian minister was
telling US of a similar incident that oc
Cured one day on the parade ground at
| the citadel when party of New Eng
| land people were being shown around.
| The soldier who acted as guide as is
usually the case had been expanding
his e,oQuence in describing how the little