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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 94, 20 April 1916, Page 6

"It is obvious to me. and many who think like me," said Sir Rider Haggard on arrival in Hobart recently, " that at the conclusion of the- war a very abnormal state of affairs must arise. Several millions of. men will be disbanded, and it is considered to be highly improbable that they will all be content to return to their old occupations. The break in their lives has been, so complete that it would be extremoly strange if they wished to do so. Doubtless the greater proportion of them will desire to give up the desk, the counter, and other employments in favour of the freer life. That at all events has been the experience of the world after every recent war. We think that it is a sad pity that all this good blood should be lost to the Empire. Our <lesire is that if the people do wish to change their homos, they should go to other parts of the world where our flag flies, and there become an added strength to the Empire, instead of being lost in lands where, by degrees, they and their children must become identified with another nationality." Sir Rider Haggard is making investigations in Australia in reference to the settlement of sailors of the Royal Navy and soldiers in the Commonvcealth after the war,