Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
COL. DENNIS FINISHES FIFTEEN
MONTHS RECRUITING IN u. S.
Aided in Gathering Up Brit
ons and Canadians for
Service in War on Huns.
Figures Given Showing Big
Part Allied Countries Have
Taken in Conflict.

NEW YORK. September SO.-Col.
John S. Dennis, c. E. F., second in
command of the British and Canadian
recruiting mission, has just completed
about fifteen months of work for the
mission in the United States, and, ac-
companied by his aid. Lieut.. H. c. P.
Crosswell, c. E. F., has returned to his
home in Canada.
~ Fourteen officers of the mission, in
Guiding Col. Dennis. Lieut.. ,Crosswell,
Col. F. c. Jameson, who had charge
Maj. Paul F. Sise and Capt. H. B.
Pepler, will soon leave for Siberia
with the first contingent of the Cana
dian Siberian expeditionary force,
numbering about $500 men.
Col. Dennis, who is not only SOL
der, but hustling business man as
well, and assistant to Lord Shaugh-
messy, president of the Canadian Pa
cific RAILWAY. was Brig. Gen. w.
A. Whites right-hand ma n in con-
recruiting campaign, which closed for
Britishers and Canadians between
twenty-one and thirty-one Septem-
Der %. and will close for those between
eighteen and twenty-one and thirty
one and forty-five about October II.
After these dates, Britishers and Cana
dians who have not volunteered for
their own armies, will become subject
to the provisions of the United States
draft. At the same time about 100000
citizens of the United States, resident
in Great Britain and Canada, who
Army, may be drafted into the British
or Canadian army at the American
draft age.
$4,000 of Military Age.
Col. Dennis, when asked for a re-
sumo of the missions work, stated
that there were $4,000 BritonS and
Canadians of military age in the
United States, according to the last
United States census. and figures OBJ
tanned from other sources. OF these,
$4,000 have volunteered and the re-
naming 2S5,000, under the provisions
of the treaty between Great Britain
and Canada and this country, now fall
into the draft of the United States.
AS Canada's representative on the
mission, the colonel has assisted in
Canadian army. The total number
of recruits who volunteered and were
accepted for the British and Canadian
armies in the United States was about
10000, of which the British army got
about 1900. -
Il consider it a privilege, as a
Canadian said Col. Dennis. ito
bear witness to our deep appre-
citation of what has been done
by your country since war was de-
clared against Germany. It is true
that we in Canada were a bit peevish
lend a hand in keeping the Prussian
mad dog off this continent, but we
realized the many difficulties your
government was confronted with and
the necessity of having the majority
aof the people solidly behind them be-
fore they engaged in this awful
struggle.
THE magnificent work done lately
by American soldiers when fighting
the pick of the German army has
again proved what bad guessers the
kaiser and his gang are: The joke is
on them. for all the things they
laughed at and stated were inpossi-
BILE have been accomplished"
U. S. Indebtedness TO England.
Referring to the fact that the feel
ings of the people of the United
States as whole had not been very
sympathetic to the British nation on
account of the American revolution.
the colonel said he thought the time
had come to forget all about 1916
and it's unpleasant family auarrels.
He pointed out that if Britannia had
not ruled the wave I'VE in Canada
and you in the United States would
long ere this have had the war
brought home to us, at least along
the Atlantic coast"
Col. Dennis spoke fee1ingly of the
great part Canada had voluntarily
taken in the war as a unit of the
British empire. The British govern
ment had no power to order any man
in Canada into uniform, and yet
within forty-efght hours after war
was declared Canada voluntarily de-
cided to do her share She felt that
if her rights, usually spoken of as
democracy. were worth having and