signed authorizing, the dispatch of the troops. t The month's delay between the British request and final Canadian acceptance had made the War Office impatient; but its attempt to expedite the matter through the Governor General brought an angry cable from Borden, "No reply shall be sent to the British Government's message except through me.

* In the end the Japanese landed more than 70,000 men, justifying this by claiming that the Americans had' exceeded their assigned total through the addition of some 2,000 administrative troops."'

t The approved contingent, nearly 5000 strong, consisted of Headquarters Canadian Expeditionary Force (Siberia), H.Q. 16th Infantry Brigade, a base headquarters, and the following major units: "B" Squadron R.N.W.M.P. (Cavalry), 85th Battery C.F.A., 16th Field Company C.E., 6th Signal Company, 259th and 260th Infantry Battalions, 20th Machine Gun Company, No. I Company Divisional Train, No. Field Ambulance, No. 11 Stationary Hospital, No. 9 Ordnance Detachment."'

It had been hoped that sufficient men could be raised by voluntary enlistment, but when this was not found possible some personnel drafted under the Military Service Act had to be employed'" During the late summer and early autumn the Canadian Brigade was concentrated on the West Coast in readiness for dispatch to -Vladivostok,'" but it was not until 1 I October that an advance party of 680 all ranks sailed from Vancouver with the force commander, Major- General J. H. Elmsley, a former commander of the 8th

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