From the News

Dated: July 5, 1915

And the battlefront in France, Dominion Day was celebrated at noon by a triple salvo from all the guns on Canadian Corps' front. Just before noon hour the guns cease to fire. Simultaneously at twelve o'clock, and again at two and four minutes past the hour, hundreds of guns, from 18-pounders to the great siege pieces, the shells from which fell miles behind the German front, burst out in a mighty clamor. They told the enemy for the third time of Canada's natal day since the war began that the Dominion is in this fight for liberty and democracy till the last gun is fired.