DOMINIONS' SOLDIERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 87, 14 April 1917, Page 6

DOMINIONS' SOLDIERS.

MILLION MEN UNDER ARMS

OVER 300,000 FROM CANADA

LONDON, April 2. At the. luncheon given to-day to tlie Dominion War Cabinet representatives by the Members of the House of Commons, Sir Robert Borden, Primo Minister of Canada, remarked that 1,000,000 men lrom the Overseas Dominions had enlisted. During the past 20 months the strength of the Canadian contingents had increased from 75,000 to 400,C00, and over 300,000 had gone overseas. The Germans were fighting. in desperation under the delusion that we were seeking to crush Germany' and terminate her national existence;; This> was never jbhO;; Britis^ intention. It was impossible to ! crush a nation of 70,p00,000 people, but Germany must be taught that military aggression was neither a profitable nor a legitimate business, and that the world's conscience would not tolerate the ruthless violation of the liberties of small nations.

The British Constitution, Sir Robert added, was the most flexible instrument of government ever devised. He believed that the Imperial War Cabinet indicated a line of Constitutional development in the immediate future, and he discerned therein tho birth of a new and greater Imperial "Commonwealth.