THOUGHTS FOR TIMES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1920, Page 2

THOUGHTS FOR TIMES

« —r.r A SqLDIEIdS WAItNING. Fie'.d-Marsba} Sjr H. H. Wilson, Chief of the Imperial Genera} Staff, at the Union Jack Club, London : i‘We are told that we went into the last war to end war, We didn’t; WO I went into that war to save our own | skins. We are told that after that lost i war we were to have peace. We have I not; there is something between twenty ! and thirty bloody wars going on at the ! "present moment. We were told that i the Great War' was to emj war. ft did 1 not; it could not. We have a very diffi. I cuil time aimed, whether on the sea, in I the air, oj lire land, and a club like 1 this can do good if it brings us together and causes us to discuss tilings and to know things, and apart from August, 1914, our country and our Empire has never wanted you fellows more than vqu are wanted now. We were in danger in the early days of 1914, and we are living in very ticklish, if not dangerous times now, Whether it is command of the sea or on land in the different parts of the Empire from Ireland * to India, or command of the air, tlmt | command is being challenged. I want you to take away the warning from a , fellow soldier that our country and our Empire both want you to-day as much as ever they did, and if you are as proud of belonging to the British Empire as I am, you will do your best to qualify ftp the tjmps fihaf, are coming.” . (Cheers.r j