BRITISH LEGION GROWING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 2 June 1925, Page 9

BRITISH LEGION GROWING.

EARL JELLICOE A MEMBER. •JiT CABL.It —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTBIQHT.) (BEVTEB'S TKMOttAMS.) LONDON, May 31. In his presidential address at the opening of the Conference of the British Legion Earl Haig welcomed -Karl Jellicoe as a valuable reinforcement to the Legion. Lord Haig regretted that the resolution passed at the conference ot "Idas" (Internationale des Anciens Combats) in September last, urging collaboration of Allied ex-servicemen's associations with ex-enemy organisations, had not met with the wholehearted support of the Allies. He emphasised the Legion's enormous power for doing good by working to secure the peace of the world by agreement, co-operation and mutual goodwill, also by binding the Empire together by a chain of mutual goodwill and understanding. Lord Haig mentioned that there had been an increase of 103 branches of the Legion. It was now the largest non-party organisation in the country. Prince Arthur of Oonnaught presented Lord Haig with the Legion s royal charter. Earl Jellicoe said that he would devote himself to helping the class of emigrant who was willing to work on the land, the class for whicl) there was every opportunity in Australia and New Zealand. Earl Haig announced that the Legion was working out a scheme for the training of ex-Service men afad their families with a view to organising a Legion settlement in one of the Dominions.