BELGIAN GREAT WAR VETERANS PROTEST AGAINST AMNESTY BILL.
Because they believed the passing of the Amnesty Act, by Belgium’s Parliament, an insult to their comrades who lost their lives in the great war, 400 ex-servicemen from all parts of the country gathered at the tomb of the I'nknown Soldier in Brussels, Belgium, ami begged the pardon of the dead. The Amnesty Act pardons all traitors, spies and conscientious objectors of the world war and the service-men consider this an insult to the war dead.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 9
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84BELGIAN GREAT WAR VETERANS PROTEST AGAINST AMNESTY BILL. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 9
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