DISABLED HEROES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 214, 10 September 1928, Page 7

DISABLED HEROES.

BELGIUM REVISITED. Moiis* Gratitude To "Old Contemptibles." TOUR OF BATTLEFIELDS. ("Times" Cables.) • (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 0. The Brussels correspondent of the "Times" states that the 4S British disabled ex-servicemen visiting Bei,gium were warmly welcomed throughout the country. The motor cars in which they were travelling were pelted with flowers, the routes were beflagged, civic receptions were held and entertainments given everywhere. Detachments of troops were always present to accord them honours while bands played "God Save the King." They were greeted with unusual cordiality at Mons, the people proving that they have not forgotten the British who first fought there in 1914 and re-entered on the last day of the war. The disabled men laid a wreath on the monument, at the crossroads which was the scene of the first Anglo-German fighting. They visited the cemetery where 223 officers and 391 men are buried. The Burgomaster, in welcoming them at the Town Hall, said: "We have received many British people, but to-day we greet with the most tender emotion the men who have given their flesh and blood for the sake of justice." He read out the names of six disabled men survivors of the Mons' retreat who stepped out from the ranks and signed the "gold books" of the city.