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(Elec. Tel, Copyright— United Press Assn.) {Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.) LONDON, Sept. 18. At tha. Australian and New 'Zealand Club's' dnhcheon to the ..overseas, press delegation, yMr;/:Hughes. (Prime; Minister for Autralia) declared that if to-day Amiens -and Paris ' were not . -held or . threa|;eue4-by the. enemy • is was due to the •heroism' and elan of\ the Dominion 3 He . bel'eved that we could wlieneVer 'called Upon, pierce the Hind-enbflrg-line. He commended Mr. Balfour's >v and President .WilepiVs. replies to Austria's peace note. ;Lprd;;BQav,erbrpok, m proposing the' toast ot the guests, said that he" hoped , to fell, them j,., and, through thent.the people^., of . Britain'sr part m the war. She had contributed more men by percentage than, any of the Dominions.-. Britain herself could not claim recognition of what^she- is doing, and m this way perhaps the doings of the. Dominions ap- / peared: to. eclipse the' Motherland. He hoped..the visitp^s;would bei^ble t tp pnt things m thp right perspective jlf there w.ei^aiiiv., misconceptions bri the point. . r MrW&ack/rtfrK (editor of the Herald, Auckland, ./&-Z.)y^*^plyinjr , ,-.-^eferttjd.,to, the', generosity of the- British' people m giving. eyer.y< credit ? td>the>Dp]r)iin'ions andvtaki^g little themselves . There was no ' divfictf .miscpn?fe-ptioh ; overseas about Britain's v part. The cable neAil ; s kept, them. well >m formed of the magnitude of Britain's? effort. • ... j :j . f . * .:^-.:. :
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14714, 20 September 1918, Page 5
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