CANADA.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 21 May 1917, Page 7

CANADA.

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Ottawa, May 18

Sir Robert Borden, speaking in the House of Commons, announced that the'selective draft system would be adopted. Canada would provide from 50,004) to 100,000 men to reinforce the divisions at the front.

Sir Robert Borden reported the results of the Imperial Conference. He said chat as the result of the decisions of the Conference regarding India, the Government decided that the regulation regarding the immigration of Indians to Canada should be placed on the same basis as the Indian regulations on Canadians. He had asked Sir Wilfrid Laurier to accompany him to [London as Canada's second representative at the after-war Imperial Conference. Sir Wilfrid Laurier had promised that, the Opposition would give the same consideration to .the Government's con.scrip'tiont' proposals a's it had given to other war measures... He agreed, that Canada should do its utmost till victory was attained. ~ ,-.-..