EX-OFFICERS' PLIGHT
SIR D. HAIG'S APPPEAL.
(Received July 5, 10 r 30;a,na.) LONDON, July 1. Sir Douglas Haig, giving evidence before the. Pensions Select Committee, strongly . condemned the v ' treatment of ex-officers, . especially the disabled. Some, he said, were actually starving, and tliero were many cases of ex-offi-cers, and their -families living in povertyJ and being unable to educate the children. 1
Sir Douglas asked: How''can the nation' rejoice over a victorious peace,, when those who have given everything in. tho struggle are in such want? .He offered a number of suggestions to remedy the defects of-the- fresent system and advocated increased allowances. . • '-, v;
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9650, 5 July 1919, Page 5
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