EMPIRE DAY.
Received May 26, 4.37 p.m. LONDON, May 25. Addressing 4,000 scholars at Ealing on. Empire Day, Mr Bent, referring to the enthusiastic demonstrations in General Botha's honour, declared that Australians would not have shouted themselves hoarse and fluttered white handkerchiefs, but would have remembered the sorrowing widows, the wooden legs and armless men in their midst. He hoped that General Botha would keep his promises, and that the Transvaal would prove in the future as good a friend to the Motherland as Australia had been. Referring to his Cadet guard of honour, 2>lr Bent declared that thousands of Australian cadets were willing to show the stuff they were made of if the Empire needed their services. The children sang "Rule Britannia." Mr Bent caused great laughter by declaring his belief that Britons were the biggest slaves of the lot. Received May 26, 4.54 p.m. LONDON, May 25. Three thousand eight hundred scholars participated in the Empire Day rejoicings, which in London and the provinces were unprecedented in enthusiasm and scope.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8449, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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