WELFARE OF SOLDIERS
EX-SERVICE MEN'S CONFERENCE TIGHTENING THE BONDS. BELIEF OF HABDSHIP. (Reuter’s Telegram*.) (Rieceaved 8 a.m.) CAPETOWN, February 28.
At the ex-servicemen’s conference General Smuttsi, Premier of South Africa, said he hoped lobe conference would help the Governxnentis to deal with the welfare of soldiers. There was ait-rue and honest desire by the Governments and the peoples of alll parts of the British empirp Ato do their besit to meet cases of hardship. Sir Douglas Haig said tliajfc the bond which held the ex-servicemen together should never be loosened', but should b(A handed unbroken, and unbreakable down to their children’s children. There should be a guarantee for all time throughout Hie empire of the maintenance of the wide ideals for which they had fought. -
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 6158, 2 March 1921, Page 2
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