Lord Lambourne, speaking at Can-non-street Hotel recently, referred to the reputation of some Eastern nations for their barbarous treatment of the horse, and mentioned that a year or so ago he received an assurance from the .Secretary of War that as long as he had anything to do with the matter, no military horses should be sold in the East. That week, however, he had received a telegram, cabled from Alexandria, as follows : "A hundred and fifty Government horses advertised for sale in Palestine, 13th May. Is not this a. breach of faith?" Whoever trusted a Government after such an experience, he said, must be most confiding.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 42, 17 August 1918, Page 3
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