TO SAVE LIBERTY.
What Free Men Can Do. London, May 1 General Smuts continued that antics before the war had said the . country was corrupted by wealth, that we had grown soft end, that the day of test would find us wanting. When the day of trial came, ,we showed what free men could do in tbe greatest conflict of The world. Britishers are the financial, moral and in a great series, the military mainstay of the whole Allianoe Tbe eoemy calculated upon apathy aDd even disruption among the free nations of the Common wealth of Empire, but the Imperial freemen came forward'aod did (heir duty, not merely to help the Mother Country, but because they felt that when liberty wßs endangered in Europe it was endangered all over the world. America had ioined because this; ■ - . . ■ W : # : : • ' ' Ajj • was a war of freedom against slavery and military despotism.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1917, Page 2
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