CANADA'S PART.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 10

CANADA'S PART.

MEN AND MATERIAL.

Steps Already Taken By

Dominion.

COMPARISON WITH 1914. British Official Wireless. (Received t p.m.) RUGBY, September 15. The splendid contribution of Canada, both in men and material, to the 1914-18 war, is recalled in a Ministry of Information statement, according to which tho men of Canada are again flocking to the same colours for the same cause. Already the Canadian Parliament has sanctioned millions of pounds for the prosecution of the new war.

That she will bring to her great task all the vigour, resolution and enterprise that contributed so notably to the victory of British arms in 191S is already manifest. But it seems that in the material sense Canada will be able to play her part on a still more impressive scale than in the industrially immature days of 1914—although she was well able even then to pay from her own pocket every cent of the cost of her participation.

Canada, sincc the Great War, has increased her production <.f wheat from t»4,000,000 to 450,000,000 bushels. Beside* wheat, Canada is a valuable source of the supply of many foodstuffs and war materials.

What Canada's contribution in the matter of personnel inav be in the present war is for her to determine. Last time, from her comparatively email population, she enlisted in tlv? Canadian Expeditionary Force no fewer than 620,000. Placed on Parole. From Lagos it ig learned that the internment of enemy aliens in Nigeria is complete, but the authorities have been able to release about half the number on parole. Germans who remained in the Gameroons after the declaration of war have similarly been placed on parole, and are being employed as far as possible on plantations which have been taken over by the public custodian of enemy property. The Cameroone have until now done a large trade in bananas, mainly exported in German vessels.

Germany, in a recent broadcast announcement, tried to delude the world into believing that London is without milk. The reply of the Milk Marketing Board is to be found in the advertisement columns of to-day's newspapers, which urged housewives to see that every member of their families has at least a pint of milk each day. "Adequate supplies flrs available and will be," runs the announcement. A pint per head daily is twice the quantity of milk hitherto consumed in Britain oven in peace time..

FINANCIAL CONTROL.

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ACTS

(Received 2.30 p.m.)

OTTAWA, September 15

'Ihe Minister of Finance has announced the creation of a Government board to negotiate and control trailsactions in foreign exchange, to license imports and exports of all jjoods, money and securities and to use the Exchange Stabilisation Fund as an aid in maintaining exchange rates. The control will be effective to-morrow. The Bank of Canada is acting as technical adviser and banker for the board.