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The detachment which fought the only action in our intervention leaving for the battle of Masaya. "They carried the position in thirty-seven minutes, with a loss of four men"

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A 3.7-inch naval gun from the Annapolis mounted on a flat car at Corinto for the expedition to Managua, the Nicaraguan capital

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BUILT BY GERMANS, OPERATED BY NICARAGUANS And safeguarded by United States marines. The beginnings of railway development in Central America means will be provided wherewith its governments can once for all be wiped development may be forwarded, whereby away. The establishment of a resolute its obligations to European capitalists and Monroe Doctrine will be made possible

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WHERE OUR MARINES AND BLUE-JACKETS DISPLACED NICARAGUAN REVOLUTIONISTS General Mena started his revolution in Nicaragua in 1912 by confiscating the American railroad and its boats which operated on Lake Nicaragua It was to protect this property and the lives of Americans in Managua that the American Minister appealed to the State Department at Washington

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Left: Abandoned track of the old Canal company. Right: One of the locomotives which helped start the abandoned canal

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Blue-jackets in charge of a train on the Granada-Corinto line. Fifty-one per cent. of this property is now owned in the United States, the other 49 per cent. by the Nicaraguan Government

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CANADA IN WAR TIME

THE RECENT CALL FOR EVERY THIRD ABLE-BODIED MAN IN THE DOMINION-
HOW EVERY FAMILY HAS BEEN TOUCHED BY THE WAR-THE EFFECTS
ON BUSINESS, ON POLITICS, AND ON THE PEOPLE

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service overseas, and Sir Robert Borden's recent call for half a million men means that within the year every third man of the best in the Dominion will be enrolled. In human terms it means that every mother in this nation at our doors expects hourly the proud sorrow of hearing that her son has joined the tramping squads that march through the city streets; that every boy and man is

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facing the "mora! conscription" of his own conscience, asking, "Can I wait longer to enlist?"

Already there is scarcely an Englishspeaking family in Canada that the war has not touched. A son, a husband, a sweetheart, or, at the farthest, a cousin is in the ranks many of them are dead many have returned to whom death would be a mercy. Over the fireplace in every men's club in Canada hangs the roll of members who have enlisted, and before many of the names appears a little red

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CANADIAN CIVILIANS TRANSFORMED INTO SOLDIERS

The 20th Battalion of the Second Contingent (Canada now maintains 50,000 men on the firing line, besides about 105,000 in training in Canada and 70,000 in final training in England), marching from the Parliament Buildings past the South African Memorial Monument in Toronto. Though imperial loyalty, as distinguished from national, is stronger in Canada than ever before, Canadian troops go to this war as Canadians, whereas in the South African War they went as volunteers of the British Army

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