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KEEP FIT."

FOR PERILOUS TIMES AHEAD. Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, speaking at the Union Jack Club in London, said we had been told that we went into the last war to end war. We did not. We went into it to save our skins. We were told that after the recent war we should have peace, but we had not £rot it. There are at the presenr moment between twenty and thirty war;, going on. The war would not end war. "T hope you men," he continued, "to whatever brancih of the si - i.c you belong, will do all you can to keep fit and ready for the time that is coming. Ex j 'cept in August. 1.14. our country andj our Empire have never wanted you m-.ire. J We are living in ticklish and dangerous j times, and our command on sea and land and in the air is being ehalleng-ed in various parts oi the world. I hope you will carry this warning, ii you like, away with voii from a very old soldier who knows* what he is talking about."7

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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 17

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KEEP FIT." Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 17

KEEP FIT." Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 17