ACUTE DISTRESS
UNEMPLOYMENT IN ENGLAND
WAR MEDALS BEING PAWNED.
(!)NITP» Mill AIIOOIATION—COmiHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN ■ NBW IIiLAMB CAILI ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 7th November.
According to the Daily Chronicle the acuteness of the distress due to unemployment is evidenced by the fact that pawnbrokers state that a large percentage of war medals are in pawn or have been sold, though the silver medal is only worth' Is or Is 6d. In at least two cases men tried to pawn Victoria Crosses. This is illegal, so. the pawnbrokers refused the Crosses. In one case a soldier was in such distress that a pawnbroker advanced ten pounds upon the man's waistcoat.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 113, 9 November 1921, Page 5
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105ACUTE DISTRESS Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 113, 9 November 1921, Page 5
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