RANKER OFFICERS

Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 10

RANKER OFFICERS

PROTEST AGAINST PENSIONS THREE-DAY DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 27. (Received Juno 28, at 10 a.m.) “ It is no small effort for former bat-' talion commanders to don sandwich boards and gutter crawl, but having vainly tried every constitutional means we have decided to see it through to the bitter end,” said Major North, secretary of the Army Ranker Officers’ Association, which Is protesting, by a three days’ demonstration starting on June 29, against receiving only noncommissioned pensions, despite the fact that its members were commissioned on active service. Two Ministers have failed to fulfil a promise to adjust matters, and so 12 officers, wearing medals for every campaign since Britain fought the Mod Mullah, and. including two holders of the Victoria Cross, will assemble in the Strand for parade during the day at Whitehall and in the vicinity of Parliament. Meanwhile Field-Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode told the Veterans’ Association that Army recruiting was nearing the crux of the crisis owing to low pay on foreign service and the difficulty of obtaining jobs after seven years with the Colours. )