PICKED CANADIANS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 16 March 1915, Page 5

PICKED CANADIANS.

ENGLISH AND IRISH UNITED

IN THE EMPIRE'S COMMON CAUSE.

(Received March 16, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. The new Canadian contingent has encamped. They are all picked men, and during the voyage the crime 6heet was a- blank. Their behaviour and discipline in camp is exemplary. Mr Redmond, at Manchester, said that the fact that the meeting was not composed only of Irishmen proved that Englishmen and Irishmen were now united for a common purpose. Ireland had been admitted by the democracy of England on equal terms to | her proper place in the Empire, which she had assisted in building up as much as England had. Ireland had already taken her proper place in perfect and absolute good faith, and her first immediate duty was to ensure that Ireland bore a full and honorable part in the war. A month ago 99,704 Irish had enlisted, exclusive of 115,000 Irishmen in Britain. In fighting for the Empire Irishmen knew they were fighgting for Ireland, and the Kaiser's calculations had been completely falsified, as he expected a divided Empire.