VISCOUNT HAIG IN AFRICA
ENTHUSIASTICALLY WELCOMED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) CAPETOWN, February 21. Viscount Halg, accompanied by 20 ax•ervicc delegates, representing Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, have arrived. They were accorded an enthusiastic oivio welcome. Viscount Haig, in a speech, said the conference which he came to attend aimed at Uniting up all ex-servicemen throughout the Empire, preserving the spirit of comradeship involved in the great war, so that the benefits for which they strove in the war should not be thrown away. After paying a tribute to the service of the South Africans in the war, he said It was singularly fitting that an Important conference of ex-servicemen should bo held in South Africa, where 20 years ago men from the overseas dominions gave the first great proof of the abiding solidity of the British commonwealth of nations.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14598, 23 February 1921, Page 6
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