Rest assured that the crimes of Germany will receive adequate punishment. Attempts will be made, by insidious propaganda, to undermine the source of your strength; but you, the soldier citizens of the finest and most advanced democracy in the world, will treat such attempts with the contempt they deserve. You know that self-imposed, stern discipline has made you the hardest, most successful, and cleanest fighters of this war. Beginning by the immortal stand at the second battle of Ypres, you befittingly closed by the capture of Mons your fighting record, in which every battle you fought is a resplendent page of glory. I trust you, and the people at home trust you, while the memory of your dead comrades demands of you to bring back that glorious record, pure and unsullied, to Canada. ARTHUR W. CURRIE, Lieut.-Gen. Commanding Canadian Corps TRIBUTE They need no dirge, for Springtime fills All things with tribute unto them; The music of the daffodils Shall be a soldier's requiem Among a thousand hills. Blow, golden trumpets, mournfully, For all the golden youth that's fled, For all the shattered dreams that lie Where God has laid the quiet dead Under an alien sky. But blow triumphant music, too, Across the world from sea to sea, Because the heart of youth was true, Because our England proved to be Even greater than we knew. MILDRED HUXLEY _By permission of the Author_ ON THE NAVY (_December, 1918_) Our safety from invasion, our daily bread, every means whereby we maintain our existence as an independent people, our unity as an Empire, or federation of commonwealths and dependencies--all these float from hour to hour upon our naval defence. . . . . . . . . . . If that defence is neglected, weakened, or fettered, we should be in continual danger of subjugation or starvation. We should be forced to live in continued anxiety. If that naval defence were overthrown or outmatched by any other Navy or probably by a combination of navies, we should hold, not merely our possessions, but our lives and liberties only on sufferance. Where else in the whole world can such conditions be paralleled? We have the right to demand from all other nations, friends and foes alike, full recognition of these facts. We are also entitled to point out that this naval strength that we require, and which we are determined to preserve, has never been used in modern history in a selfish and aggressive manner, and that it has, on four separate occasions, in four separate centuries--against Philip the Second of Spain, Louis the Fourteenth, Napoleon, and the Kaiser--successfully defended civilization from military tyranny, and particularly, preserved the independence of the Low Countries.