From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 8 May 1915:
The papers of last Saturday published a particularly vivid account by the Canadian Record Officer of the stand of Canadians at Ypres. Such heroism as is revealed in this narrative deserves even more than the tribute we paid to the Canadians last week, Their feat of arms will live for ever in military history. It was performed by men offered by lawyers, professors, and business men. We have since learned from a statement by General Hughes, the Canadian Minister of Militia, that the Canadian casualties exceeded six thousand. According to General Hughes’s account, late in the battle the Canadian Highlanders were cut of by about sixty thousand Germans. Firing was heard far into the night till the last cartridge had no doubt been expended, and it is not yet known whether the Highlanders were annihilated or whether the survivors were taken prisoners.
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