MEANING OF WAR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 17 November 1927, Page 9

MEANING OF WAR

PEOPLE FORGETTING.

TRADITION AND THE EMPIRE.

Already too many people were lorgetting what war really means, said the Right Hon. E. Shortt. K.C., exHome Secretary, at the second annual reunion of Wellington district members of the Wellington Regiment, N.Z.E.F. “You New Zealanders may have lived here only a little over 100 years, but you have brought with you the traditions of the British nation and of your ancestors,” said Mr. Shortt “They are yours a 5 much as ours, and so long a s we all recollect that, so long will the British Empire be the dominant force in the world.” Expressing pleasure at being invited to the function. Mr. Shortt said that it was more than merely a pleasant evening for all who were there. It was a memorial to those who had gone, and a bond for those who were there. It was essential to the peace of the world that such meetings should be kept up, for they helped to make them remember what they went through in the Great War. Mr. Shortt referred to the attackmade on war. and mentioned in the cables last week, bv Field-Marshall Sir William Robertson, who, he said, was speaking up like a man as to what war really meant.

“Every one of you who has a son should bring him up to know what war really means,” continued Mr. Shortt. “Too many people are forgetting already War has shown that the British Empire is an absolute League of Nations. 1, myself, inn a great believer in the Geneva League of Nations. We members of the British Empire are really the first League of Nations, and as such we should always hold together. If wo do, then w e are the greatest League of Nations the world has ever known,”