BROTHERS IN ARMS.
FRENCH TRIBUTE TO OVERSEAS Received July 19, 7.3 0 p.m. PARIS, July 18. M. Briand gave a luncheon to the Overseas Parliamentarians. He said: My welcome is not an ephemeral manifestation of courtesy, but the expression of the ardent appreciation of a nation making the same sacrifices. We are united to you by the fraternity of arms. The moment Britain drew the sword, legions of enthusiastic young men in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, proud to call themselves citizens of the Empire, traversed the oceans hound for unknown countries in derence of liberty. Referring to the Dominions’ assistance to tile Empire, ho said it was an event the memory of which would he gloriously preserved throughout the ages as the symbol of an ideal stretching beyond the frontiers of our continents.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 20 July 1916, Page 5
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136BROTHERS IN ARMS. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 20 July 1916, Page 5
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