CANADA WILLING TO FIGHT TO END.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13997, 29 January 1916, Page 2

CANADA WILLING TO FIGHT TO END.

Canada's determination to wage war mercilessly against the Teutonic host until success crowned the1 efforts of all the Allies was clearly indicated in a*i address at the one hundred and tenth dinner of the Nfew England Society of New York, by Sir Robert Lafrd Borden, Premier of Canada, who said that.while the events of • 1916 would lead to an abiding peaco^ Canada was "fully, determined to spare no effort to make triumphant the cause of the Allies— -the-free-dom of the world."

Recounting -what sacrifices Qanada had already made. Premier Border said it stood ready to make still more, "firm in the conviction that humanity's struggle against the enthronement of force above right will/not be in vain."

Premier Borden was enthusiasfdcally cheered thrrmghoxit hjs address, which was the iirsi. delivered by him Jn tne United States since the outbreak of the war. After reverting to his own intimato association with New England life, and the part that Canadians played on the side of the Union during the Civil War days, Premier Borden told how Canada had redeemed the pledge made to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of t.he present war. Canada's authorised force is now 2.50,000 men, the speaker and he added thatmore than 200,000 are already under arm?. He then referred to the generosity of the Canadians in contributions to Red Cross, Belgian relief and other funds, 'and the success of the recent 50,000,000 dollar loan as conclusive evidence that the Canadian people were dotv-rrviined with the Mother Country "to carry on the struggle to a successful conclusion."