CAUSE OF JUSTICE.
MR. CHAMBERLAIN PRAISED.
TRIBUTE FROM MR. SEMPLE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
ASHBURTOX, Monday.
We can say with one voice, one will and one conviction, that the British Government has done everything possible to avert this tragedy," said" the Minister of Public AYorks, the Hon. R. Seinple. addressing representatives of Canterbury local bodies during an inspection of irrigation centres in the county. "When tilthistory of this bloody conflict is writt.'n the British people must l>e held innocent.
'"Mr. C'h«nib:-rlaln has dune everv thing." Mr. Semple continued. "He has almost humiliated himself in the cause of peace, but now the step has been taken our duty is to make a vow that it" England goes down we go down with her. But lam confident we will not go down, that justice will prevail, and that tyranny will not be exercised. We do not live in the days of the jungle. We must do all we can to perpetuate British institutions and British liberty."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 209, 5 September 1939, Page 9
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