Photograph from Lieut. W. K. Harris 



MOUNT VICTORIA PASS : BLUE MOUNTAINS, NEW SOUTH WALLS 



Most Australians thoroughly appreciate their good roads, for the time is not long since 

 when over the same route which an automobile now traverses in one short afternoon their 

 fathers spent six weeks in hacking a way through the dense bush for their creaking bullock 

 carts to negotiate. 



Canada is now going through a similar 

 experience. Every family with young 

 men of military age in the Dominion has 

 offered, is offering, or expects to offer 

 them up as possible sacrifices upon the 

 altar of their allegiance to the mother 

 country. 



What is going on in Canada is also 

 happening among Great Britain's chil- 

 dren in Australia and South Africa. As 

 among the French in Canada, so among 

 the Dutch in South Africa, England's 

 justice retains for her a loyalty that a 

 less equitable policy would have lost. 



I have not at hand the number of 

 troops furnished by Australia and South 

 Africa to swell the British forces, but the 

 graves of those New England sons in the 

 battlefields of the Gallipoli Peninsula and 

 elsewhere bear silent but eloquent testi- 

 mony to the tie that binds them to old 

 England. 



Canada is from 2,000 to 5,000 miles 



from the British Isles. Australia and 

 Africa are half around the world. Their 

 people live under different conditions. 

 They have a different government. They 

 must perforce, because of distance, have 

 different views of life. The remoteness 

 of distance and condition has much to do 

 with destroying interest and affection and 

 loyalty. 



When it does not do so, when the pa- 

 triotic thrill courses through the veins 

 and arteries of men in Ontario, Winni- 

 peg, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, 

 in Australia and at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, as hotly as in men between Lands 

 End and John O'Groats, we would find 

 a cause ; and we do find it in the wisdom 

 of England in dealing so generously with 

 her trans-Atlantic, Pacific, and African 

 daughters, and in strengthening their 

 loyal affection by granting independence 

 of government and assurance of protec- 

 tion as members of her family. 



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