From the News

Dated: October 29, 1915

Montreal, Que. - No matter how broken in body the wounded soldiers who return to Canada, not one betrays signs of a dejected spirit, or a hopeless mind. Among the officers brought into the city by the Canadian steamship Metagama, there was not one whose interest in his own wound seemed other than impersonal.

"How were you wounded?" was asked of Lieut. B. C. Quinan of the 31st British Columbia Horse, now on his way back on two months' leave to Lilooet, B.C.

"By shrapnel in four places, and chucked in the air by an exploding shell," he said.

"Do you like war?" one man was asked.

"Like it!" he exclaimed. "Of course not. We will all be glad when it is over."

"Why then do you want to return as soon as your wound is healed?"

"I will tell you why. It is because every man is needed at the front who is willing to die rather than have a world in which German and Prussian ideals are triumphant."

Lieut. Quinan passed through the engagements at Ypres, Festubert and La Bassee. He praises highly the Canadians who have just gone to the front. "They are as keen as mustard," he said , "and they pick up points about the fighting from the veterans in double quick time."