Our Canadian correspondent has! referred on more than one occasion to the rumours of a prospective inion of Canada from the United Btates. but in the Dominion the fter has never been treated ously, although our correspondent hag informed us that Canada would be able successfully to deal with any such raid as might be attempted. It is, therefore, a little difficult to understand the "New York Herald's" effort to create a scart, There is no doubt that small and sporadic enterprises have been, and probably will be, undertaken by German-American and German refugees in the United States, with a view to carrying out acts of incen-charism and the like. But that 200,000 German-Americans, armed with Mausers and led by German officers, who have arrived as Belgian refugees, are waiting for the signal to cross the frontier, we do not believe. In any case. the American Government may safely be left to look after its-citizens and to prevent any imported plotters from so far succeeding in such a wild-cat. scheme as to arm a large force. Probably the foundation for the original story was that the Canadian, Government received, through their secret service, warnings of individuals who were suspected of intending to commit outrages and notified the American authorities accordingly. President Wilson has very plainly told German-Americans that they must not go too far.
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