Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917. MILITARY DEPARTMENTAL COMPLAINTS.
THE press has to lie pariicularly careful nowadays as to its criticism of military departmental affairs. Individuals with all sorts of grievances and complaints, wire-pulling, etc., rush off to the newspaper man to have same publicly ventilated, and are annoyed and disappointed because they cannot "get a hearing." The press is muzzled to a very large extent, and is compelled to loyally keep within the limits of the War Regulations. -But the time is coming, probably not until the bells have rung out the glad tidings of peace, Avhen accounts will be settled up. There are glaring acts of injustice which, unfortunately, will not be forgiven and forgotten with the laying down of arms. There are men occupying high positions in military affairs to-day who will wish, when the reckoning comes, they had spent their time and took their chances with the active forces. In the meantime, and in the best interests of the common cause, silence must be maintained, so far as the press is concerned, against that da v.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1714, 19 May 1917, Page 2
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180Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917. MILITARY DEPARTMENTAL COMPLAINTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1714, 19 May 1917, Page 2
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