250,000 Canadians at Front by Next Fall.

The second Canadian contingent will comprise 15,270 officers and men, 4,765 horses, fifty-eight guns, and sixteen machine guns, and will be ready to sail from Canada in January.

A third Canadian contingent of approximately 25,000 men will be ready to leave for England early in March. Including the first contingent of 33,000 men, the Dominion by spring will have sent more than 70,000 men to the firing line.

The military authorities also have decided to keep 40,000 men under arms in Canada to serve as a base of supply for the contingent at the front. As the British war office has informed the Dominion that reÃ«nforcements should be provided for at the rate of twenty-five per cent per month, instead of on the smaller basis of seventy per cent per annum, as at first anticipated, it will mean a drain or the numbers recruited for reÃ«nforcing purposes[Pg 60] of from 6,000 to 8,000 a month, with increases in proportion as the strength of the Canadian forces in the field is enlarged.

When the second contingent of 15,000 to 17,000 men leaves for Europe in January, a further enlistment of 17,000 will take place immediately. It is believed that mounted Canadians will be sent to the Suez region of Egypt.

With a contingent being sent to England every two months, together with reÃ«nforcements, Canada expects to have placed between 200,000 and 250,000 men at the disposal of Great Britain by next autumn.