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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13816, 22 July 1918, Page 3

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ADVERTISE NEW ZEALAND. I

V" i> i' i'! '■' 1' ! i 1 \ \> SI (iCKSi r.i>. ''ln the I nited States everyone has ... II in i i. ~ ; ■ ■ I i;:i ii' a ,s|um ial i;ag wiin a mai i.,r <ai !| boy in the Army and Navy," writes a Now Zialaiult r who is al present 1:1 the I nited Sla'.i's. "Tin- Stales lielieve in plenty of display, loud talk, and plenty of confidence—' wait-till-we-are-read\ ' sort of talk. Canada is grim and determined in win. I'.S.A. is smiling ami saying, 'We are "oing to lie!' i!i>Han il ii tikes 15 million men and I'M I liii:ioii dollar?-. It has i o>i n- M b:l----lioii now, and i> costing In million a day. We are railing this month, rogistei inj.* one and a-hall mil-j lion more; L'.SI)().()(III men have joined and are in training and in I''ranee—not bad for a year. We have spent 150 million on aeroplanes, and you will soon hear about them.' "The Americans have just put ov v their third I,'iherty Loan. They asked lor three billion and Ljot four and aliali. They had 1 (K_) hlue-elad soldieis from France in New York to help the loan and also ">OO wonderful Australians. who took Xew York hv storm. The people went mad over them, and they were a fine husky lot of men. too. New Zealand should send a ship through the Canal with 500 New Zealanders in time to help with the fourth loan. It would he a wonderful advertisement, for New Zealand. .Millions ot people in 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 in 1' ranee—best dressed, best behaved, and host looking. Five hundred New Zealand troops well dressed marching up Broadway would be 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 in the war, well, they don't even know that white people live there. "New Zealand wants population, wealth and good customers for her products, etc. America is near and has plenty of money, so 1 say if Mr Massev would send a ship with, say, 1000 New Zealanders to New York via the Panama Canal, and have them land the month the loan drive is on, lie would do a wonderful thing for New Zealand and the Allied cause. Tt would tell millions of Americans that New Zeaand is a wonderful country. The news, papers all over would print the history of New Zealand in the war and tell of the sacrifices she has made. They 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 the British colonies were a down.trodden lot, on the verge of revolt, that the peoples of the colonies were kept in ignorance and ground down l>v England. .Millions l>elievo it yet—believe England is a hungry wolf, grabbing all the land she can and treating her colonies like dogs. Ireland is held un as. the awful e\amnio. T have travelled over most of the United States and talked to people in towns large and small, also to farmers bv hundreds from Maine to California, and I say to-uav there are (50 million American people who believe that England is in the war for what she ran get out of it in the way of colonies. They Mieve that England has forced the' colonies to do the figlaing, and that tliev are tired, but that England makes them fight on and denies them liberty. A thousand New Zealanders marching up Broadway with a New Zealand Hag, bi<r froo men, from a free country, would show America that England gave her children liberty not equalled anywhere in the world, and would show that her sons, England's sons, free men, come of their own free will fourteen thousand miles to fight for freedom, the same freedom Americans fight for. America and the British Empire must stand together to beat the Hun, hut before you can get the full confidence of Americans you must show them and prove to them that the Germans lied when tliev said England forced her colonies to fiyrht, forced them to pay taxes, and that the colonies are not in sympathy with the Mother Country."