KING ALFONSO.
WHAT HE DIB IN THE WAR. By Telaeraph.—Ptvu Mia.—Copyright. Received Oct. 20, 5.5 p.m. Paris, October 10. ' On the eve of King Alfonso's visit I* Journal publishes details of his attitude during the war. When Paris was to extreme peril King Alfonso wished to go to Franc! at the head of his cavalry, but his Ministers dissuaded him. " He instituted a bureau which conducted huge correspondence for the purpose of tracing the missing and for the amelioration of the treatment of prisoners. He conducted 1 personal interviews on behalf of 126,000 French, Bel- . gian, British, and Italian soldiers. He obtained pardon for nineteen soldiers sentenced to death, and he secured the repatriation of seventy thousand deportees and twenty-one thousand sick and wounded.—Times Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1919, Page 4
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