GENERAL DAWES HONOURED
FREEDOM. OF ANCESTOR'S TOWN. (British -Official Wireless). . Rugby, Oct. 1, General Dawes, American Ambassador, to-day received the freedom of Sudbury, Suffolk, whence his ancestor, William Dawes, emigrated to America 300 years ago with other' Puritans. The scroll of freedom, "which was enclosed in a casket of Old British oak, recalled General Dawes’ ancestral connection with the borough ami mentioned his services to the cause of peace and disarmament, to which he had wholeheartedly devoted his life. General Dawes in acknowledgment mentioned there was record of an English Dawes lighting against an American Dawes during the American War of Independence. All that, however, was past. The two countries were now together fighting a battle tor world peace. '
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1929, Page 11
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