INTENSE PLUCK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2520, 22 July 1915, Page 3

INTENSE PLUCK

A TRIBUTE TO NEW, ZEALANDERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, July 21. Writing from ''somewhere in Europe," Captain Ernest Boxer, of the New Zealand Field Ambulance,. Expeditionary Forces, says: "No words of mine can sufficiently express the admiration I have for the intense, pluck ajid perseverance of our New Zealand men, and of'the Australians too. They have taken nearly impossible positions, but at a loss, terrible to .Tealise, and worse to havo witnessed. This is very like 'Spion Kop, only more so, and I trust that as Spion Kop remains as a memory so will Now Zealand lievor forget how her troops fought for and gained a footing on the Peninsula. A word, too, as to the spirit in which those who were wounded met their troubles. I . havo seen ghastly things—terrible wounds and disfigurements. I have seen "wounded men who Were forty-eight, and even seventy-two hours on outposts and unable to bo succoured. I have seen men dying in: agony and closed their sad wan eyesi but out of all the horror of it arises a great glory in tho very suffering: that New Zealand can and has produced—and will yet produce—such noblo heroes-who suffer and die-without one murmur.'" ; Brave r 'little liildc'of-'oiirgL She has indeed done what sfie could, and sealed her bond of Empire with her rich red blood. Honour tne heroes of our regiments when they, return.;, forgive their faults (only relative, after all), and let the land see and' feel the personal debt it owes them."