Newark post., 1918-02-06
CANADIAN OFFICER
VISITS NEWARK
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question of right, would have set
tied for all time the question of
right. When the intellectual men
of a nation of a hundred million
declare a thing to be right, the
moral effect is enormous.
'In Canada, we are in this war
to the last man, and Canadians and
Americans are all of the same
stock, our associations are the
same in practically everything but
local matters. A warmth Of feel
ing has always existed. That there
ever was separation occurred
how? Because of the stupidity of
a German prince, sitting on an
English throne, prince who
couldn't speak the language Of the
people he governed. And the cohe-
sion of these people, it would seem,
by the irony of fate, is being
brought about by a German prince
of later generation.
"When the electric spark an
nounced to the world, England has
declared war on Germany, it af
fected the sheep shearer in Aus
tralia, and the cotton weaver in
Lancashire; it affected the people
and the wealth of the entire world.
In a twinkling Europe was under
the tread of twenty million armed
men, and the world was topsy
turvy, all for the ambition of one
man. The Bible says, Blessed are
the meek; for they shall inherit the
earth The Kaiser, it would seem,
has a new version which reads,
BLESSED are the strong; they shall
prey upon the weak a doctrine
which he has illustrated in Bel
gium, Serbia, and Montenegro. We
know now that this Kaiser's plan
was to devaste Belgium, and march
on to Paris in six weeks. 1t went
further. That accomplished, he
would cross the channel into Lon
don where he would celebrate
Xmas day,-along with all this
barbarous butchery keeping the
birthday of the Prince of Peace.
''In Britain, at the beginning of
the war there was little army 500,
900 strong, for Britain is ruled by
a king who has preached peace.
But Briltian rose in her might, and
in little less than a year, her army
numbered 100000 strong. Eleven
members of my own fanny are in
the game. Five of them sleep over
in France. There is scarcely a |
home in Canada, which does not at
test, by the sombre clothing of the
widows and mothers, the vital in
terest in the war. Nothing but re-
demption of civilization itself, can
expiate. But it is worth all of it,
if it can, as it will, crush out for
ever this damnable thing that we
call Prussianism.
81 wish at this point" the speak
er continued, "to pay a tribute to
the part the women are doing in
the war. Along the front, wher-
ever you GO, these big brave men
of ours, show all the joy of boy,
over box from home. And they
come; every day some one gets
one; and the cake, or the delicacy
it contains is passed among his
fellows.
"As a means of illustrating the
work of the British navy, whose
boats are literally everywhere, |
should like to describe for YOU"
Colonel Clayton said, "the trip
across the Atlantic, as it is being
made every week by thousands of
our men. The transport on which
| crossed carried twenty-three
hundred men. Fer the first three
days our experiences were the
same as those 0f al lHndsmen at
sea. One night, about three days
out, as we wer4 travelling aicAE
total darkness ruling the sea, We
saw the Captain receive note and
Instantly disappear. All curiosity
20 know the reason, we discovered
it in a time shorter than it takes
10 tell it. Some one had pushed a
aside from a port hole, per-
the release of a ray of
light. The man in charge of the
lights was a little Welshman, and
he air was sulphurous for a few
minutes. Orders, in mid ocean, had
,ome from a vigilant British des-
royer, to conceal that light. Dur
ng the period of that voyage six
ships were sunk by submarines,
i've of them within sight of our
-essel, and the destroyer which
vas to have conveyed our vessel
vas delayad tryinp to .ava tho ,