IMPRESSIVE TRIBUTE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 268, 8 August 1919, Page 7

IMPRESSIVE TRIBUTE

TO DOMINIONS' WAR BFPOBSB. (Eeo. August 7, 8.30 p.m.) Londorij August 6. Lord Curzon made a deop impression in 'tlio House of' Lords when paying a flowing tribute to the overseas Dominion^' i efforts in tho war.- It was rot tlio firefc time (lmt tho Dominions in recent toV tory had conic to our aid. Canada, Now Zealand, and- Australia had aided us in Africa and on tho Nile, but never boforo had they been converted into great armed camps, enforced in somo cases by compulsory sen-ice, treating the struggle as though it was their own. Tho deeds of tho Dominions in Franco and Gallipoli wore already a national opic, enshrined in tlio glories of our race. Four hundred and sixty thousand soldiers had been eemt? from Canada, 100,000 from Australia, 112,000 from Now Zealand, and 26,000 from South Africa. This million men lrad a moral force impossible to ovor-estimate, and had left an imperishable impression on the conscience of tho world.—Aus.N.Z. Cablo Assn. (Hoe. August 2, 10.5 p.m.) . London, August" fi. The House of Commons passed Mr. Lloyd George's rnotio nof thanks to the Imperial rfiid Overseas Forces for thoir war services,—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S TRIBUTE. (Kec. Aug. S, 0.10 a.m.) London, August G. Mr. Lloyd George, in moving the voto of thanks to tho forccs, referred to tlio debt we owed to tlio Dominions. Thidr timely, effective, and powerful aid, and the valour of their sons, had won for them a powerful place among tho na-tions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.