CANADA AND THE WAR.
QUITE CONFIDENT OF VICTORY.
SDinething of what he ]£h<rnod while tcting as Commissioner 'jpr New Zealand at the Panama Exhibition was related ivy Mr E. C Clifton, to- a -gathering of m-embcrs of the Auckland A. and P. Association.
Mr. Clifton that on the outbreak ii war he wati. in Canada. While in Vancouver he saw 2500 hardy men, who hud gathered from all parts of the West, march through the city en route to the war. There. were tjien {lags flyrpg, but on' .a later, occasion, when 12,000 '.narch-L-d away in the wake of those who had fared so severely at Ypres, there was no jubilation, but you could read the ivt determinatio'it iii their faces. (.':•*- tda was now prepared to raise hrr ariiiy. to a strength c\s 500,000, fully equipped men., and like every' v otlfer part o I the ."■impire Was quietly Confident of v^tory.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19160601.2.84.11
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 6
Word Count
152CANADA AND THE WAR. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 6
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in