THE WHITE MEN FROM THE GREAT COLONIES.

Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 20, 23 July 1897, Page 2

THE WHITE MEN FROM THE GREAT COLONIES.

The contingents of colonial troops continue to pour into London. ' Men from the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, military police from Cyprus, Haussas from the Niger, and Dyaks from Borneo have been here for some time, and on Thursday arrived volunteers from Natal and, troopers from Queensland and New Zealand — some of them English and some Maoris. The horses for the Canadian Mounted Police ' have ' already arrived, and the men will follow shortly. The troops we have, named by no means complete the roll, .for almost jevery colony and possession, besides India, will be represented. All the world knew of the great force possessed by ns in India, but the exhibition of the military resources of the rest of the Empire will come to most Englishmen as a surprise. Though the native troops are of course exceedingly picturesque as well as good fighting material, foreign critics will not be able to tell us that, like Carthage, we are depending on black and j'ellow mercenaries. The most serious and important part of the little " sample " 'army of the Empire now assembling in London consists of whitp men from the great colonies — men of our own flesh and blood, and as ready to stand by the Empire as auy British-born Englishman. Mr. Seddon^ the > Prime Minister of New Zealand, struck a fine note when Jie said that Macaulay's prophecy would never be fulfilled, because England could not go under till New Zealand had also succumbed. If ;- England i became a desert there would be no New Zealauder left to sit on a broken arch of London Bridge while he sketched the ruins of St. Paul's.