CANADIAN TROOPS.
ALLEGED NEEDLESS WASTE OF LIVES. By Telegraph—Press Asaociation-"Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, March 6. The Toronto correspondent of the " New York Times" states that Gene- » ral Sir Sam Hughes (ex-Minister of 'Militia and Defence), in the course of a speech in the Canadian House of Commons, charged the Canadian officers on 1 tL© West Front with- needlessly sacrificing the lives of men for the purpose 4i gaining personal advancement. He laid he had protested to Sir R. L. Borden (Prime Minister) regarding the needless slaughter at Oambrai, Lens f.nd Passchendaele. Sir Sam Hughes also made a charge of profiteering by the Canadian packers oupplyinsc &» -j&wuidiaa troops. 1 : &'
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18042, 8 March 1919, Page 9
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112CANADIAN TROOPS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18042, 8 March 1919, Page 9
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