LESSONS OF THE WAR

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 6159, 3 March 1921, Page 2

LESSONS OF THE WAR

BEING LOST SIGHT OF EX-SERVICE MEN'S .VIEW'S MUST BE PREPARED. (Aiwttfalian arid N.Z. Cable.) (.Received 8 a.m.)

CAPETOWN, March 1. At the Empire ex-service 4nen's conference a motion was moved that 'until the League of Nations lias proved a practical organisation f.oir the maintenance of peace', it is essential that the defence of it he empire be maihtained in such a way as to guarantee the integrity of territories against any probable enemies, and that the conference view with deep concern the fact thai the lessons with regard to the provision .for war, brought home in 1914 and succeeding years at incalculable

loss of life and sacrifice are being lost sight of. Discussion was adjourned. The conference adopted a resolution moved by Mr Leadley (New Zealand) that while it welcomed immigration of ex-service men:, it was opposed to unrestricted immigration. Mi" Leadley said thai what was wanted was men who were not afraid to work, were prepared to to the backblocks, not those who 'would congregate in large cities. Replying to Mr Leadley's suggestion that Britain's treatment of returned soldiers would detrimentally affect the response to the next call to arms. Mr Dyett (Australia) declared that Australia certainly would be thero, and would risk extinction rather than leave the empire in the lurch. He believed the. response to the empire's newt hour of need would exceed that of the past wan.