THE EMDEN BELL
“RETURN IT TO GERMANY” EX-POLICE CHIEF’S ADVICE. At the first annual banquet of the New South Wales Police Returned Sailors and Soldiers’; Association recently, the’ former Commissioner of Police, Mr James Mitchell, .urged that the Australian people should return the Emden bell .to Germany, with Australia’s compliments. “I-am sure the German people would rise as one man and say, < Thank you Australians, you are a sporting people,” said, Mr Mitchell. . Mr Mitchell said, the Anzac Memorial should be kept reverent, in peaceful surroundings. The German gun should be removed. It had no place near the memorial. It was what returned men represented that should appeal to the people —they' represented the men lying in cemeteries overseas. There was no unknown soldier.: God,knew them all. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Childssaid he was proud of the policemen who made such a fine show in the Anzac parade. He asked all nho had earned decorations to wear them, although they did not wish' to.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22258, 10 May 1934, Page 12
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