HEROISM OF CANADIANS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3195, 9 June 1915, Page 7

HEROISM OF CANADIANS.

HAPPY WOUNDED TP OOP a

“WE HAVE DONE THE TRICK.”

The magnificent conduct of the Canadians is almost the sole topic in. the Canadian press, says air. Independent Cable message from Vancouver, received in Sydney. The special correspondent with the Canadians pictures a little town at the rearward of the firing lino still crowded with wounded swathed in field dressings, smiling through their bandages, cheerful and proud. They were sitting along a platform awaiting their turn to bo taken to the base hospitals. “Wo have done the trick!” they shout, and marching men, many of them British veterans, swinging towards that neverceasing Bedlam of shells, yell back: “You have !” and cheer and cheer again. Wounded British prisoners returning to the London hospitals unreservedly praise the Canadian courage and tenacity. The Canadian position was on a promontory in the area operated over by the German attack. When the Germans commenced to fall back they may, it is suggested, have been able to enfilade them. A thousand Canadians should have been made prisoners, but they won their freedom. That may bo partly duo to their amateurishness. The moral effect of the German attack and the early success made by the Canadians had furiously roused them to efforts which in ordinary circumstances they might have boon incapable of. They felt that at the last they had an opportunity of proving to the Germans that they Had miscalculated once again. They acted accordingly. They stood up to the old British tradition which every opposing general has cursed throughout history, that of never knowing when they wore beaten. By all the rules of warfare, apparently, the Canadians wore beaten, but they did not know it. They suffered terrible casualties, gave as good as they got, and eventually turned the tables on their foes.