OTTAWA - The four-day special session of Parliament began yesterday amidst much anticipation.  During this session it is expected that partisan politics will be cast aside to ensure that war preparations continue without delay.  Among the legislation slated for passage is the War Measures Act and a much needed $50 million appropriation.  The highlight of yesterday's session was Prime Miniter Sir Robert Borden's address.  An excerpt follows:

In the awful dawn of the greatest war the world has ever known, in the hour when peril confronts us such as this Empire has not faced for a hundred years, every vain or unnecessary word seems a discord. As to our duty , we are all agreed; we stand shoulder to shoulder with Britian and the other British Dominions in this quarrel, and that duty we shall not fail to fulfil as the honour of Canada demands.  Not for the love of battle, not for the love of conquest, not for greed or possessions, but for the cause of honour, to maintain solemn pledges, to uphold principles of liberty, to withstand forces that would convert the world into an armed camp; yes, in the very name of the peace that we sought at any cost save that of dishonour, we have entered into this war; and while gravely conscious of the tremendous issues involved and of all the sacrifices that they may entail, we do not shrink from them but with firm hearts we abide the event.