CANADA'S ARMY.
Canada (says a, United States paper) has now about 80,000 men at the front, an army greater than Wellington commanded at Waterloo, and about twice the size of the British Army in the Crimean War. But Canada has actually raised a total force of about 150,000 men. Of these about 12,000 have been killed or wounded, 80,000 are in France and Belgium, and the remainder are on their way or about to start. After the first force had been sent the enlistments were very slow, and it was not until the casualty lists began to come in from Ypres that the people of the Dominion woke up to the fact that the war was a real one.. Since then the enlistments have been very brisk, and there are no better soldiers in the field, if one excepts a certain tendency to insubordination which seems indigenous to the Western Hemisphere. <
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 10
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151CANADA'S ARMY. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 10
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