BRITISH WAR (LEADERS DECORATED
•SPEECHES AT- THE MANSION "■;..' HOUSE.. London, June 12. The King, at Buckingham Palace, invested Admiral Sir David Beatty and Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig with the 'Order" of' Merit. . , Subsequently at the Guildhall,. Sir Da'yid.Beatty and Sir Douglas Haig were .presented with the Freedom of the City. Admiral Beatty, in a speech, said that ■ the Battle of"Jutland had eo damaged the moral of the German Navy that it never succeeded in regaining it. • . Jiii. Douglas Haig advocated the maintenance of a strong citizen army.' Every man . should be a trained volunteer. They, now knew the truth of Lord Jtobci'ts's remark that "Britain can only have peace, by being prepared for war."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 9
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117BRITISH WAR (LEADERS DECORATED Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 9
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