CANADA AND WAR.
POLICY NOT POPULAR. (United Press Association—Copyright.) MONTREAL, March 24. More than 1500 French-Canadians held a demonstration against Cana.dian participation in any war outside Canada, .The meeting was called by the Jeunesse, the FrenchCanadian youth inoviemeut. Similar sentiments were expressed at an earlier gathering of students at the Universite do Montreal, who opposed the declarations made at Ottawa last Monday that Canada, if England were attacked, might be called on to assist. “Down with conscription. We will die fighting conscription before we yield. It is better to die in our native land than to die over there,” cried members of the Jeunesse. . /A. promise that he would save them from becoming “cannon fodder” was made by the Mayor of Montreal (Mr Camillien Houde).
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 140, 27 March 1939, Page 5
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