AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND ARMY ? CORPS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2414, 20 March 1915, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND ARMY ? CORPS

HARDEST PART OF TRAINING OVER WILLINGNESS OF THE MEN THEIR CHIEF VIRTUE (Roc. March 19, 9.35 p.m.) i • I* Sydney, March 19. Captain Bean, the Commonwealth Official War Correspondent, rabies as follows:—"The 'spring Reason has commenced in Egypt, with fierce, hot winds «ntl clouds of dust. Tlie hardest part of tlio- training is over, and the men now get a whole holiday weekly, besides a half-day on Sundays. Their willingness is tho chief virtue of the Australasian troops, and British and French officers never fail to remark this." He mentions that a local newspaper is reporting that seven soldiers had [alien from tho Pyramids and were killed. The truth is that one Territorial had a fatal fall, and an Australian was injured in the spine. The third Australian Contingent lias reached camp. Tho men and horses are in 6plondid condition. EXAGGERATED REPORTS OF BREACHES OF DISCIPLINE. .. ~ c .. .. . ~ . Fremantle, March 19. Archdeacon Samwel, the Anglican chaplain with the Second Expeditionary Force in Egypt, has returned. He declared that the reported breaches of discipline were grossly exaggerated. The conditions had groatlv improved and the men were now fully aware of the consequences of indiscretions. The whole trouble was due to the criminal adulteration of liquor by the Egyptian cafe, proprietors. Archdeacon Samwcll brings a message from General Birdwocd, the General in command, stating that he is intensely pleased with the progress and efficiency attained by the Australian and New Zealand troops. "The men are eager and willing, and have risen to the occasion. When file archdeacon left tho men were itching with excitement—deletion by censor follows.