CANADA AND THE WAR.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13792, 12 June 1915, Page 8

CANADA AND THE WAR.

In ..an important statement to the Canadian Parliament . (writes tho Toronto correspondent of tho Lyttelton "Times"), tho Prime Minister showed that already 36,000 men had been1 sent overseas. Of theso the Ist Division of some 18,000 men is already in the field, and depots have already been established in England with reinforcements for all arms of tho service for both divisions. Thero arc in addition nearly 10,----000 members of the Militia ou service in Canada, and tho permanent forco !now contains 2100 men. The grand total amounts to 98,000 men. In spite of an increase in the cost of living which is estimated by the Canadian Department of Labour at about 1\ per cent since the war began, tho country as a whole is very prosperous, and there are relatively few signs of financial depression. This is in part due to the immense amount of money spont in munitions of Avar and supplies, and in part to the necessity for manufacturing within the country articles hitherto imported from Germany. It is said that contracts for many million dollars worth of shells, both high explosive and shrapnel, have 'been secured from foreign Governments through the .special Military Committee appointed by the Government for this purpose. Not less .than 8,000,000 dollars worth of remounts have also been purchased, and at least one factory has secured a contract for a high explosive amounting to several millions.