COLOURED RACES OF EMPIRE
USING LARGER NUMBERS. (Received 5.15 p.m.) Renter. LONDON. June 7. Speaking in the Houso of Commons, Mr. C. B. Stanton, Labour member for Merthyr Tydfil, asked why the hundreds of thousands of coloured members of the Empire, who were ready and willing to go to the front wero not used. The Under-Secretary for War, Mr, J. I. Macpherson, replied that means of utilising to the best advantage the services of the coloured peoples had been thoroughly investigated. Contingents were already rendering useful service in several spheres of the war, and arrangement' were in hand both for reinforcing the existing contingents and forming new ones.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16561, 9 June 1917, Page 7
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