A WORD FROM AMERICA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 9

A WORD FROM AMERICA.

ADVERTISE NEW ZEALAND

VISIT OiP DOMINION TROOPS

I *<\t>. \\\& United States -everyono has a Iftag, and those with boys at the front Slave a special flag with a star for each boy m the Army and Navy," writes a New Zealander who is at. present \\\ the United States. "The States . beliieve m plenty of display, loud talk, ahd plenty of confidence — 'wait-tiU-wfe-are-ready' sort of talk. Canada is grim artd determined to win. U.S.A. is smiling and saying, 'We are going to lick the Hun if it. takes 15 million* men ami. 100 .billion dollars. It >ias cost its 10 billion now, and is costing 40 millions a day. We are calling 300,000 this m<3nth, registering one and a-half millioj.v more; 2,{500,000 men have joined : and are m training and m Frattcer-not bad for a year. We .hava. spent- 459 million on aeroplaneSj antf you will soon hear about them-.* ..-■..•

* The Americans have just put over their third. Liberty Loan.' .They asked for tliroe . billion "md got four- ' and ahalf. They had 100 blue-clad soldiers from France in,> Tew York to help the loaii antl also 600 .wonderful Australians, who took .New York by storm. ! V people went masdo over them, and tljey were a fine husky lot of men, too, New Zealand^ should send* a ship. through the Canal with $00 New, Zealanders m time to help with the fourth loan. It would be a wonderful alvertisemerit for New Zealand. Millions of people ill Now York don't know New Zealand is on the map at all.. Send big. men. Australians and Canadians tell me the New Zealanders are the .finest troops m France — best dressed, best behaved, and «t looking. Kve hundred New Zealand troops well dressed marching u& Broadway would bet worth a million to New Zealand, and be -worth millions to the Allied cause.. Americans don't know New Zealand even exists, and as for New Zealand being m . the war, well, they don't even know that white people live there.

"New 1 Zeakntf wants population, wealth, and good' customers for her products, etc. .America is .near and has plenty of money, so I say if Mr. Massey would send a ship. with, say, 1000 New Zpalanders to "New York viito tlie Panama .Q&nal, andr have^.thempland the month the lo&tt drive is .on, he would do a wondefrfcul thing^for New Zealand and the Alh"ed.;Cause. It would ;teW, millions of Americans -that, New,, Zealand is a wonderful country. The newspapers all over would print the history of New Zealand, in the war : andi tell • of thosac''"'es she has ma^e ;^.Tl|fey would show through the -moving pictures that America must at least do as much as New Zealand. Germany has told Americans for 25 years that v the British colonies were a dowri-trddcle'n lot, on the verge of revolt, t that, the, peoples of thecolonieß were- kept 4 ih ignorance and ground 1 down by E'nsland. IVfillions believe it yet^— believe .England, is a. hungry wolf grabbing*, all the land she can and treating her colonies, like dogs. Ireland 19 held iip as the awful example. I have i travelled oven* most of the United States and talked to people m towns' large and small,, also to-,. farmers -by hundreds j from Maine to Califprpia, and I say|.today there are .60 American people who believ« that England is m the wax for what she can get out of it m the way of colonies. They believe that England has forced the colonies to do the fighting, and that they are tired, but that England makes them fight on and denies them liberty. A thousand New Zeajanders inarching up Broadway with a New Zealand flag, big free nien, from a free country, ■would show America that England gave her children liberty riot ? equalled anywhere m the world, and'! would show that her sons, England's; sons, free men, come of their own free I will fourteen thousand miles to fight for. freedom, the same, freedom Americans fight ,foi\ America. ,,an,d the .British Empire must stand together to beat the Hun, hut before .you. cap get the full confidence of _', Americans .y oui , mv^ slapw them and prove to them , that tnji .Germans lied when, they said Eijgland forced her colonies to fight,, forced them to pay taxes, and that the colonies are not m sympathy with the Mother^ Country."