CANADIAN TROOPS
A SUGGESTION DENIED. EXPENDITURE AFTER EMBARKA- ■ TION. ' ; 4 ■ ' (United Press Association.) (By Electrics Telegraph—Copyright) OTTAWA, September 13. (Received Sept 14, at 5.5 p.m.) A denial was made' by Sir George Perley, a war-time:Canadian High- Commissioner in London, -of the suggestion in the report of the Committee oil Unemployment and Wages Reduction of the Australian Council of Trade Unions that Canada .was relieved of all expenditure relating to troops upon embarkation overseas in the Great War. Sir George Perley said They. must have been misinformed. . Canada herself paid the entire cost of her troops during .the war from the, time of .enlistment until they were discharged from service, including transportation across the ocean, * pay, and allowances, and food and ammunition used at the front.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21131, 15 September 1930, Page 7
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