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Show i' THE ENGLISH ARE FIGHTING There is a widespread effort to persuade Americans Ameri-cans that the British are asking others to do the "fighting and dying for them." Figures as to casualties prove that this is untrue but, even if it could be established, we would like some super-patriot to point out the difference between British and American policies. poli-cies. As a matter of fact, honest Americans know full well that millions of people in this country were not only willing, but anxious, for other armies to do all the fighting in this war, even after the United States had been treacherously attacked. The fact that, as a nation, we have changed our minds reflects credit upon the people of the republic, who now see their duty clearly and are ready to make their contribution, bitter though it be, to the redemption of a world all but captured cap-tured by the brutal bandits that parade through the nations under the guise of armies fighting for their countries. Captain David Margesson, British war secretary, secre-tary, recently denounced the "insidious and false" idea that the people of the British Isles were not doing do-ing their share of the empire's fighting and he cited some figures to show that the statement was untrue. For example, Germany has 80,000,000 population, popu-lation, to which must be added the people of vassal vas-sal states, about 50,000,000. Italy has 45,000,000. The British, in the United Kingdom, number 46,-000,000. 46,-000,000. Of the 504,000,000 in the whole empire, the great majority are Asiatics, with Indians in the lead. Outside the United Kingdom, the white population pop-ulation is not very large: Australia, about 8,000,-000; 8,000,-000; Canada, 11,000,000, and South Africa 2,000,-000. 2,000,-000. These figures give an estimated white population. popu-lation. In proportion to population, Britain has kept fewer white troops at home than any other white center cen-ter except New Zealand. "Of every 100 men killed or wounded in the land fighting in Libya since the beginning be-ginning of the war, about seventy have come from the United Kingdom." |