ARMY OFFICERS PROTEST
Increased Pensions Wanted by Rankers (Received 28, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, June 27. "It is no small effort for former battallion cvjnmanders to don sandwichboards and gutter-crawl, but, having vainly tried ebery constitutional means, we have decided to see it "througih to the bitter end," said Major North, secretary of the Army Ranker-Officers' Association, who are protesting by a three-days demonstration, starting on June 29, against receiving only noncommissioned- officers' pensions, despite the fact that they held commissions in the service. Two Ministries have fulfilied their promise to adjust,matters and so twelve officers, wearing medals for eve -fj campaign since Britain fought the "Mad Mullah," and including two holders of the Victoria Gross, will assemble on the Strand, for a parade during the day of Whitehall and in the vicinity of Parliament. Meanwhile Field-Marshall Sir Phillip Chetwode told the Veterans' Association? that army recruiting was nearing the' crux of a crisis owing to low pay for foreign service and the difficulty of obtaining jobs after seven years with the colours,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 138, 28 June 1937, Page 7
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