ANTI-MILITARISM IN CANADA.
. >~. NATIONALIST LEADER'S ATTACK. By Teleerarh-Press Associatloii-CoDyrlirht Ottawa, December 23. Mr. Bourassa, leader of the Canadian Nationalists, has attacked Colonel Hughes, Minister for Militin, on tho ground of tho latter's advocacy of military training. Mr.. Bourassa has declared that Colonel Hughes invited twenty-five thousand schoolboys to become debaucHors nntl play tho fool at tho State's expense. Colonel Hughes replied goodhumouredly and said if Mr. Bourassa had received military training in his youth ho would bo a truly great man. It wonld afford him great pleasure to gazette Mr. Bourassa as Major in Command for a squadron of mounted rifles or hussars.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1320, 26 December 1911, Page 5
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