BELGIAN ARMY PAY.
(Our Special Correaepondent.) Wellington, April 30Sergeant Robert Wouters, of the Belgian Artillery, lias arrived in New Zealand on a tour undertaken in aid of the Belgian Red Cross. He is a veteran of th<i ] 914' campaign, having been at Liege and Antwerp, and is now unfit for active service. "I see by your newspapefa that some of your soldiers are asking for more money," lie said to-day. "I have no'right to comment, for I do not know your conditions. But your military pay looks big when compared witli Belgian rates. A Belgian private gets one penny a day. The King's son is serving as a pvivate ( and he draws his sevenpence at the end of the week. The Belgian soldier's wife, unless she lives in the occupied territory; receives Is 2d a day, with 4d a day for each child. There are no other allowances, and food is more 'extllan jn Zealand. But the ""1 'hi t soldiers will fight to the end, 1 -air women vill continue to en- ... They know that the war must 1 be wofl."
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1918, Page 5
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182BELGIAN ARMY PAY. Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1918, Page 5
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