A WIDOW'S PENSION
(From "The Posts. Representative.) '' VANCOUVER, 4th April. The special Parliamentary Committee on Pensions at t Ottawa heard an interesting disclosure with regard to pension paid to dependents of foreign-born soldiers. Colonel Thompson informed the committee that money was still being sent by the Pension Board to. Russia, Poland, and Latvia. But the j chief > difficulty with regard to Russia was that, although the money was received by the Soviet authorities, very -little of it found its way to the pensioner. ■ In one case a sum of £1200 had been sent, over a period of years, to a widow, but in that time she had only received 3s 9d! The money was sent to the British Agent jn Moscow, who turned it over to the Soviet. That was the last seen of it! The board received, assurances from the Soviet Commissars, that the pensioner had -one house, and one pig, and was not entitled to anymore. : "It did not occur to the Soviet, said Colonel Thompson, that the money should have been returned to Canada.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 11
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177A WIDOW'S PENSION Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 11
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