THE EMPIRE’S DEFENDERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9961, 3 May 1918, Page 6

THE EMPIRE’S DEFENDERS

INSPIRITING MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN.

The following is tho full test of the message recently sent by Her Majesty tho Queen to the Empire’s defenders;—

To the men of our Navy, Army, and Air Force, I send this message to tell every man how much we—the women of the British Empire at Home—watch and pray for you during the long hours of these days of stress and endurance.

Our pride in you is immeasurable, our hope unbounded, and our trust absolute.

You are fighting in the cause of righteousness and freedom, fighting to defend the children and women of our land from the horrors that have overtaken other countries, fighting for our very existence 'as a people at Home and across the seas.

You are offering yonr ail, you hold back nothing, and day by day you show a love so great that no man can have greater. We on our part send forth with full hearts and unfaltering will the lives we hold most dear; we, too, are striving in all ways possible to make the war victorious.

I know that I am expressing what is felt by thousands of wives and mothers when I say that we axe determined to help one another in keeping our homes ready against your glad home-coming. In God’s name wo bless you. and by His help we, too, will do our best. (Signed) MARY R.