EXTRA EDITION. EMPIRE LEAGUE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 July 1923, Page 7

EXTRA EDITION. EMPIRE LEAGUE.

SERVICE TO MANKIND

CAPITAL SPEECH BY PRINCE

.DELEGATES RECEIVED BY KING

JTX CABLE—PRLSS ASSOCIATION—OOPYBIGHT Received July 18, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, July 17. The Prince of Wales, presiding at a 'dinner to welcome the overseas delegates to the Empire Service League 'Conference, said the comradeship of .'Service which enabled us to win the war is alive throughout the Empire, -helping us in our efforts to overcome -afche many grave and difficult problems facing, the whole civilised world. Re^ herring to the projected visit of delegates to the graves in France and Bel...gium, the Prince said: "If it impresses _you as it did me you will return to, lyonv homes in the far corners of the .Empire assured that these hallowed :a*esting places are cared for in a man:,ner worthy of those whose memory "tthey perpetuate. Let- us not forget •^that_in one sense we can never be ex- : servicemen in, peace or war. All still *«we; service to their fellow-men, and so . long as we are bound by the strong of comradeship and mutual help. «ou.r position will be unassailable.'' The Prince read a message from the 1 King, expressing gratification at the efi'orts of the League to -maintain and : strengthen the bonds of . friendship "throughout the Empire. —Aus.-jf.Z. Cabel Assn. j The King received the Empire Ser■"•srice League delegates at Buckingham '. /Palace.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. i