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Show PREMIER BORDEN WILLING TO FIGHT TO THE BITTER END TORONTO. Dec. 22. Declaring he could not hold himself "in the ranks of those who say .Germany is fighting for the rig Ills of weaker nations," Sir Robert Borden, premier of Canada, asserted in an address tonight that Great Britain b nd her dominions "cannot yield while military iggression goes unchecked." "If I have a correct recollection," he said, "a distinguished statesman of Italy said that his country had been invited to join Germany and Austria in making war on Serbia and she had refused because it was a war of aggression. "When Austria sent its note to Serbia and the latter country yielded to all the demands excepting one, and on this point offered to submit to the judgment of The Hague, Austria declared war on Serbia and, with the sanction of Germany, Ger-many, precipitated a war for which it long had been preparing. "It has been said that the warring nations na-tions are fighting for the same object the protection of weaker nations but none of you would regard the action of Germany" toward Belgium and Serbia in that way. When the ultimatum was presented pre-sented to Belgium. Germany gave that nation the alternative of going to war with her or with France, and all honor to her for the choice she made. "When I read of 100,000 Belgians being torn from their homes and forced into worse than slavery, I can't hold myself in the ranks of those who say Germany is fighting for the rights of the weaker-nations. weaker-nations. "Some publicist has said of late that the causes of the war are now only of historic significance. I say that the-causes the-causes are of world-wide significance. "We cannot yield while military aggression aggres-sion goes in. checked in pursuit of world domination, for tlie purposes of the war would be useless. "Tlie message I want to bring to you i3 that the purpose of the nation will never be fulfilled till every resource and every power is organized to bring about a complete realization of the aims and objects with which Canada entered upon the war." |