LEGACY OF WAR
de;ath roll continues An acute reminder of the long and hateful legacy of Avar is supplied by the latest report of the British Ministry of Pensions. It is now nearly 20 years since the war broke out and still there are I,lo7,ooo'men, women and children drawing war pensions and allowances. These include a large number of victims of incurable mannings, disfigurements and diseases. There are many who still suffer from inhaling the poison gas which has been recently and ridiculously said to be almost negligible. It is an extraordinary fact that last year no fewer than 813 new war pensions had to be granted to widows and other dependents of soldiers who died as the result of their wounds. Since the war began the number of officers and men pensioned for disability number 1,338,82b, including 31,604 eyesight cases.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21769, 7 April 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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