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LAND & WATER 
May 25, 1916 
(Continued horn page 58.) 
I think if any group were to put up a scheme all the other 
groups might fall upon it, more or less on principle. 
" I have thought of the possibility of an Empir 
Conference of not more than twenty-five members, 
delegates from all parts of the Empire, sitting here in 
London, hearing opini. ns and suggestions, discussing 
everything fully, and eventually putting forward a draft 
which had been approved by them all. 
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I think you would find that such a draft would 
be accepted by all the Five Nations. But that's 
promature. Let's get back to facts. The war, for 
instaiKe. 
" As to Canada's share in the war, I might remind 
you that within three weeks of the declaration of war 
we had 33,000 men fully armed and equipped, and 
within six weeks they were ready to cross for their final 
training. Then you know about Yprcs and the rest. 
" As to patriotic gifts ; there is a Canadian Patriotic 
Fund of $9,000,000 ; the Canadian Red Cross, of 
83,500,000 ; contributions to the British Red Cross for 
.S2, 000,000 ; to the Belgian Relief Fund for $2,000,000 ; 
funds for $2,000,000 to the Special Machine Gun Fund, 
and for miscellaneous purposes over another million and 
a half. And, of course, more, for these are not actually 
accounted to date. 
" Then there were the gifts in kind. Here is a memo- 
randum of them : Canada sent as a gift 1,000,000 bags 
of flour, 500,000 bushels of oats were given by the Alberta 
Government ; 4,000,000 lb. of cheese by the Quebec 
Government ; 100,000 tons of coal was offered by Nova 
Scotia (in lieu of this Sioo.ooo was sent for the relief of 
distress) ; 100,000 bushels of oats by Prince Edward 
Island ; 250,000 bags of flour by Ontario ; cheese and 
hay by Prince Edward Island ; 1,500 horses by Saskat- 
chewan ; 100,000 bushels of potatoes by New Brunswick ; 
50,000 bags of flour by Manitoba ; 25,000 cases of 
canned salmon by British Columbia, etc., etc. A very 
large quantity of flour is now being sent from Sas- 
katchewan. 
" With regard to the wounded, here is a memorandum 
from Surgeon-General G. Carleton Jones, our Director of 
medical services. I'll take out a few salient facts. 
" Besides the ordinary Canadian hospitals in England 
there are three special hospitals for after-treatment — 
Ramsgate, Folkestone, Buxton 
" To Ramsgate go all cases of nervous shock ; bones 
and joints that require further treatment ; and here also 
the re-education and technical training of the soldier 
goes on. The men also make the splints, crutches, etc., 
for the Canadian hospital authorities. At Folkestone 
diseases and injuries of the eye, ear, nose and throat 
are dealt with. In such cases needing immediate and 
continuous treatment, the men are treated here instead of 
being invalided home. 
" Among the many acts of kindness we may specially 
acknowledge that of His Majesty in putting Upper 
Lodge, Bushey Park, at our disposal for the Canadian 
convalescents and of Mr. John Walter in devoting Bear 
Wood Park to the same purpose. 
" Then as I think you know, the munition work over 
with us has been put on a sound basis and is very 
much more considerable than most people here have any 
realisation of." 
I next led that usual trump. Emigration. " Of 
course we want men, the right kind of men. Sturdy 
fellows from the land. Fellows also vrith initiative and, 
at least, a little capital. There are magnificent chances, 
especially in the western provinces, and of course war 
must have its effect on emigration ; war always does. 
And I think you've seen the kind of men we turn out." 
" You mean the kind that looks you straight in the 
eyes, and if you annoy it teUs you to go to etc. ? 
Yes, we've all been enormously impressed with the faces 
of your men and the Anzacs. I remember two of your 
fellows I met from the camp near Hythe, and we had a 
day together in London. One an engine driver ; one a 
bank clerk. And there wasn't any difference in manner, 
or speech or equipment between them." 
Needless to say, Sir George takes the view of all big 
Dominion men that Canada isn't fighting just to help 
England, but to do her share for the Empire. 
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