Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1917 — Newfoundland Aids England By Sending 10,000 Warriors [ARTICLE]

Newfoundland Aids England By Sending 10,000 Warriors

Newfoundland, though her population does not exceed that of a populous English industrial city, has sent 10,000 men to fight the battles of the British empire in this war, observes the Christian Science Monitor. It is a magnificent record, and exactly what one would have expected from a country which sent its fishing ships to help in the destruction of the great armada. It was in 1583 that Sir Humphrey Gilbert took possession of the Island in the name of his “most gracious lady. Queen Elizabeth;” it was only five years later that Lq Feliclsaima Armada left Corunna for English waters, so that Newfoundland had an early opportunity of establishing a tradition for gallantry which Newfoundlanders are so splendidly vindicating in the present war. The “Ancient and Loyalle Colony" of Newfoundland is celebrating the four hundred and twentieth anniversary of her discovery, an occasion which Is seized by the rest of the empire to wish her godspeed.