MAIMED WARRIORS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 52, 10 September 1928, Page 11

MAIMED WARRIORS

VISIT TO BELGIUM GRATITUDE TO BRITAIN Tlme3" Cables. (Received 10th .-September, 3 p.m.) . LONDON, 9th. Sept. The Brussels correspondent of "The Times'' says that forty-eight British disabled ex-servicemen visiting Belgium were warmly .welcomed, through out the country. The motor-cars in which they were travelling were peited with flowers; tho routes'were beflagged and-civic- receptions and entertain inents wore everywhere given, while detachments of troops were always present to accord honours, while the band played "God Savo tho King." The veterans were ■ especially cordially greeted by the people oi' Mons, proving that they had not' forgotten that the British first fought there in 1014. and re-entered on the last day of the war. The disabled men wreathed a monument at tho crossroads, the scene of the first Anglo-German fighting, : and visited the cemetery whore 223 officers and 301 men are buried. ' .The Burgomaster, welcoming them in the Town Hall; said: "We havo received many British, but to-day we greet with the tenderest emotion the men who'have given their llosh and blood for justice." He read out the names of six disabled men, survivors of Mons, who stepped out of the ranks and signet] the "Gold Books" of the city.