LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 17 August 1917, Page 5

LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

There are disquieting tales from the Dominions (says 'The Times' editorially)- about the discontent of soldiers who have been discharged as medically unfit for the Army, but are able and anxious to settle on the land. These men have returned to their own countries to find no efficient machinery working to provide them with the new start in life to which they look forward. They were promised, when they enlisted, that everything would be done for them when they returned. j They have returned, but the war is not over, and there is no organisation ready to put them on their feet again. All the States of the Empire, including the United Kingdom, are equally bound' in this matter, and it is no use trying to separate the duty of one from that of another. 'Moreover, all walks in life are affected, and what we say to-day of lain l , settlement applies equally to other forms of rehabilitation. We received the other diiy. for instance, a lettex - from some men of a British regiment at the front asking us if we could tell them il -of any firm, | scheme, or private individual requiring young j men for immigration after the war." The writer said: "We have been in the Army since 1914, and find the rough life suits us, and, if given a chance in the colonies, could give good account of ourselves/' The firet necessity is to provide such men as these with all possible information, to let them make their choice, and then to see that they are given a fair chance of success in- the country which they choose. What we have in inind is a kind of .Clearing House for ■