WE SHALL NOT FORGET

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2460, 13 May 1915, Page 6

WE SHALL NOT FORGET

BRITAIN'S DEBT TO HER DAUGHTER STATES MR. J. C. WATSON ENTERTAINED . London, May 11. ■ Tho Hon. J. 0. Watson, first leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labour Party,; and formerly Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, was entertained tit luncheon in the Houso of Commons by, the Empire Parliamentary Association. Mr. Lewis Harcourt (Secretary of State for the Colonies) pjesided, and among those present were: —Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for Australia), Captain Muirheßd Collins (Secretary to the Hig|h Commissioner), Hon: Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand), Sir James NewtonMoore (Agent-General for Western Australia), Sir Thomas .Robinson (Agent-General for Queensland), Hon. F. W. Young (Agent-General for South •Australia), Hon. H. H Perley (Canada), Hon. W. P. Schreiner (ex-Prime Minister of Cape Colony), Lord Islington (Under-Secretary to the Colonial Office and ex-Governor of New Zealand), Lord- Sydenham (ex-Goyerior of Victoria), Lord Emmott (ex-Under-Secrc-tary to the Colonial Office), Sir Gilbert Parker (M.P. for Gravesend), and many members of tho. House of Commons. $ -Mr. Lewis .Harcourt said that . Mr. Watson must be . proud to be hero to * learn of the prowess of tho Australians and New Zealande 's in the Dardanelles, i Though, unhappily, loss was concurrent .with their great' achievament, he could assure Australia that "We shall not forget." To tho Last Man and the Last i Shilling. Mr. Watson, in reply, said that Australians were pre-eminently a peaceful people, concerned in the development of an immense territory. The present war ■ was not a Mother Country war; it was "Our War," and from. that, point of view Australia approached it. Ho was gratified 1 that our i.roops ha 1 upheld the glory and tradition of tho flag, and quoted Mr. Fisher's "Last man, ; last shilling" utterance... Australians, he said, regretted the necessity for prose- - eating the war, but it must be prosecuted to the last - degree. A suggestion ; had been made -tliat : they should appeal •.to the better nature of-Germany to bring the war to a conclusion, but tho ' sinking of the Lusitania was the best answer to that suggestion. It was im- > possible to bring things home to a nation cradled in militarism, without breaking the back; of their military . power. Any peace short of-this would be a most suicidal policy on the part of the Allies. He urged Mr; Harcourt to expedite an'informal gathering of overseas representatives before the conclu- ' sion of the war. No possible harm could be done, and a great deal, of good ,might \ be accomplished by getting the mind of 1 men "overseas with respect to war pirob- ' lems which had'arise,l. They were-now .' statesmen of the Empire aud were not likely to subjeot the Imperial Govern1' ment to any . embarrassment. ;• Mr. Watson sails for America morrow.ANTHONY. WILDING \ ED IN ACTION FAMOUS TENNIS PLAYER'S LIFE FOR. HIS COUNTRY. .: (By, Telegraph.—ProEs Association.) Chrlstchurch, May 12. 1 A. private cablegram received in Christchurch to-day state's that Anthony Wilding, the well-known tennis . champion, was killed in the north of France.

Anthony Frederick Wilding, the famous lawn tenniß champion, was born at Christchurch, on October -31 1883, being a son of Mr. Frederick Wilding, • solicitor, and a well-known ex-Canter-bury representative cricketer. He was educated in New Zealand and at Trinity College, Cambridge (8.A.), and was called to the English Bar, Inner Temple, in 1906. In 1909 he qualified as a " 'barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. When sixteen years of age Anthony Wilding, whose 5 ■. name has. since become so prominent'in the ; tennis world, won the handicap 1 singles at the New Zealand Championship meeting; in 1904-5 he won at the Freshmen's tournament at Cambridge", and represented that University against Oxfordin 1904 he won the Scottish championship; in 1907 all three covered courts championships at Queen's; won the doubles championship (with Norman ' Brookes) at Wimbledon in 1807, and (with M. J. G. Ritchie) in 1908; won the covered courts doubles and mixed doubles at the South' of Franco championship, the doubles championship of Europe at Horn burg in 1908. and reprej sented Australasia (with Norman Brookes) in the challenge round of the' Davis Cup v. America (1908), and won it in 1914; represented l Australasia in the Davis Cup matches, 1905-9; won , the championsliip of New Zealand in 1906, 1908, 1909, the championship of Victoria in 1909, the championship of South Africa in 1910, the British singles championship and doubles championship ■ (M. J. G. Ritchie), ths London covered courts championship and International singles at the Brussels Exhi- . bition Tournament, and was undefeated in England in. 1910; he retained the singles championship at Wimbledon, was undefeated on the 'Riviera, and won the Kent and London championships in 1911; retained the singles championship at Wimbledon, and wen th; singles at Monte Carlo and Deauville. also the championships of Kent and London, 1912; represented Australasia at the Olympic contest, Stockholm, and. won the bronze medal, 1912: retained the ¥ singles championship at Wimbledon and won' the hard Court championship at Paris and the covered court championship at Stockholm—three world's titles in thp same year; also won the London covered court championships at Queen's, and the Northern doubles championship (with' X. E. Casdagh) at Manchester in 1913. Not long after the war broke out, Mr- Wilding obtained a commission in the Royal Mariries, and went to the front.