EX-SERVICEMEN PROTEST
BILL PARDONING WARTIME TRAITORS BELGIANS DISCARD THEIR MEDALS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BRUSSELS, June 9. (Received Juno 10, at 2 p.m.) Armoured ears and police rushed to the scone when 300 Croix do Feu exservicemen marched past the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Hung their medals on the 'grave as a protest against the Bill passed in the Chamber of Deputies and now before the Senate pardoning wartime traitors who attempted, with German help, to create an independent Stale. , The ox-scrviccmcn were event-rally admitted to the Senate and allowed to protest against the passage of the Bill, after which they returned to the tomb and swore in French and Flemish to shoot the traitors if the Bill was passed.
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Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 16
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122EX-SERVICEMEN PROTEST Evening Star, Issue 22671, 10 June 1937, Page 16
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