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Show CANADA'S ENLISTMENTS, j Some curious figures have been presented pre-sented to the Canadian public ay the result of a controversy which has arisen concerning the supposed " slacking'' of the French Canadians. The salient fact brought out by the debate is that by far the greatest proportion of .'recrui ts comes from among those Cnuadians who were born elsewhere than in Canada. At a time when the Canadian army Dad bt-en recruited to a strength of 320,-000 320,-000 a member of the Canadian upper house gave out the following unofficial statistics regayling the composition of J the army: rVglish speaking, Canadian born, 9,2(Jtf or "8.5 per cent; French speaking, Canadian born, 14,400, or 4.5 per cent; British, born elsewhere than in Canada, 105,000, or 61 per cent; foreign for-eign bom, ' 10,200, or 6 per cent. The figures created much bitterness throughout Canada and in England. The 1 London Times took occasion to explain j the politics of the situation and to make j various charges which are not important J here. A Canadian correspondent of the London Xew Witness, who calls attention to tho fact that he is not a French ( a- j nadian, finds serious flaws in the figures , of the member of parliament. In the first j place, he points out that the figures j given for French-Canadian enlistment j are unfair, because they are based on j returns from the province of Quebec j alone, whereas French-Canadians have j enlisted from many other parts of the 1 dominion. The correspondent's figures,; designed to show the percentage of en- j listments according to population, are i as follows: English -speaking, Canadian born, 2.5 per cent ; French -speaking, Canadian born, tS9 per cent; British, born elsewhere than in Canada, 20.4 per cent ; foreign born, ti per cent. The figures demonstrate clearly that the Europeans in Canada are the ones who feel themselves most vitally inter- . ested, and that was to have been ex- ! pec ted. j |