TRIUMPH OF RIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 187, 8 August 1919, Page 5

TRIUMPH OF RIGHT.

OUTER EMPIRE'S AID. TRIBUTES FKOM BRITAIN. LONDON, August 7. • In both Houses of Parliament to-day (cotes of thanks were passed to the forces, including thanks to the gallant troops of the Dominions, India, and the colonies, for the promptitude of their response to the call of justice and freedom, and the noble part they played -with their British comrades ir, securing the triumphs of right over -RTong. The speech of Earl Curzon in the House of Lords made a deep impression. In the course of a glowing tribute to the efforts of the Dominions, he said: '"This vrar is not the first time that the Dominions in recent history have come to our aid. Canada, New Zealand, and Australia aided us in Africa and on the Nile, but never before were they converted into j great armed camps, enforced, in some cases, by compulsory service, treating the struggle as though it were their own. The deeds of the Dominions in France and on Gallipoli are already a national epic, enshrined in the glories of our race. From Canada came 450,000 soldiers to our aid; from Australia, 400,000; from New Zealand, 112.000: from South Africa, 76,000. This million men had a moral force imJ>ossible to over-estimate. They have left an imperishable impression on the conscience of the world." Mr. Lloyd George, in moving the vote bf thanks "to the Forces in the House of Commons, referred to the debt owed to the Dominions for their timely, effective Bnd powerful aid. The valour of their eons, he said, had won for thorn a powerful place among the nations: —(A. and XZ. Cable.)