Africa, and other places in the Far East were unanimous in extolling the bravery end intelligence of Canadian troops, and several on board the Empress of India, for Vancouver, said they were coming that way to see a country that could turn out such a fine body of men.
With a few laudatory remarks on the Empresses, which all who travel by them will endorse, and an express ston of his conviction that the next few years will witness an enormous development of the great natural resources of Canada, Mr. Mathews closed a very readable interview.
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