SOLDIERS AND DISORDERS.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 August 1919, Page 5

SOLDIERS AND DISORDERS.

GREAT, M_ELI3O'URNE MEETING. »_ ' SUPPORT- FOR-,AU'.l‘l_-lORi_TiI~ZS. At the invitation oi the ‘xlietorian State Commandant (Brigadier-General Brand), about 4000 solvlicrs arsembied at the Domain in Melbourne recently’ to- discuss the disturbances of U 1: previoug few ‘days. i The result of” that meeting, says a" Melbourne 'pa*_)er_ left no room for doubt that the 1-‘turned men as a’ body were whole-lie-w.r*.uil'_v behind the authorities in the pr(;.*:‘se*V:.-—‘ tion of law and order. The me:-. cheered speaker after ‘speaker. He urged them to’ dissociate themselves from. th hoodlums and revolutionaries who were using them, and showed emphatically by their attitude that they had no sympathy with those responsible for the recent disorders Six generals, three lieutenant-eolonels, two captains, and a corporal addressed the men from a. lorry, and each was given a splendid hearing. The appeals for law and order were warmly cheered and from first to last there was not one hostile interjection. When those who favoured law and order \‘-"(’l‘€ asked to raise their right hands, there was a unanimous response, and the cheers given for the King, the Premier and Generals Brand and Elliott were stirring in their spontan_ eity.