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France has ordered a raft of 700,000 native recruits from the population of French colonies for service in Europe. Quebec might have been one of the French colonies, in the time of the Napoleonic War, if British soldiers had not climbed the path at Wolfe's cove. The France of Napoleon would have drafted natives from Quebec even more ruthlessly than the France of Joffre drafts soldiers from Algiers and Indo-China. British power on sea and land saved the forefathers of Bourassa and Lavergne from leaving their bones to bleach on the line of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. And if Quebec were a French colony instead of a free province in a British nation, Armand Lavergne and Henri Bourassa would be carrying a gun in the armies of France, or fertilizing the soil of Belgium with their martial forms, instead of sitting at ease in their own race and creed zion.

Toronto Telegraph.