CANADA AND THE WAR.
MEN FIRST
VANCOUVER, Mnv 11
A messngo from Ottawa says that Sir Robert Bordon (the Premier) to-dav replied with startling frankness to* tho formers' appeal against the calling up ofnien from 10 to 22 years of age. Ho said: —"If a scattered and broken remnant which is overwhelmed because it is not. reinforced should return to Canada, it would profit little to toll them tlißt while they were decimated our production has bcon largely increased.'' HOLIJING BACK WHEAT. Tho Canadian Government agents have begun u systematic search of the AVestorn Canadian farms for bushels of wheat reported to bo held by the farmers. With the completion of seeding, tho nfliciai* say, tho farmer must give up all surplus* wheat hold. Thay suspect that wealthy Russian and German farmers in Saskatchewan are withholding considerable wheat.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16219, 23 May 1918, Page 7
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