ALFONSO'S WORK FOR ALLIES
A FRENCH TRIBUTE. PARIS, October 20. On the eve of Alfonso's visit to Paris, "Le Journal" publishes details of his attitude during the war. When Parid was in extreme peril King Alfonso wished to go to France at the head of his» cavalry, but his Ministers dissuaded him. He instituted a bureau which conducted a huge correspondence for the purpose of tracing the missing and for ameliorating the treatment of prisoners. He conducted personal interviews on behalf of 120,000 French, Belgian, British, and Italian soldiers. He obtained for 19 persons sentenced to death by tho Germans and the repatriation of 70,000, deportees and 21,000 sick and wounded soldiers. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 250, 21 October 1919, Page 5
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