BRITISH LEGION.

Shannon News, 22 May 1923, Page 4

BRITISH LEGION.

PRINCE AT CONFERENCE. (Received Monday 7 p.m.) LONDON. May 20. The Prince of Wales attended the opening - conference of the British Legion, to which the overseas Dominions and foreign countries sent maternal delegates. The Prince of Wales said the Legion had well over two thousand branches and might now suitably t onsolidatc its position, and in this way became a really big means of helping ex-service men to safeguard the interests of widows and orphans. In referring to his recent v.sit to the battlefields, His Royal Highness said: “Those terrible, but magnificent vein-, eteries, which stand on the land cape on every side, inspire one with line, tremendous feelings which bring home to each one of us what was, and should be hallowed in this spiiit of comradesship.”

Earl Haig said that although .here were still many injustices, and appalling distress, he believed the lot of the ex-service men was better than would had been the case if the Legion had not been formed. Later, members of the conference, with the Prince of Wales, attended a special choral service at the Cenotaph.