"PLAY THE GAME"
A SOLDIER'S ADVICE TO SOLDIERS ADDRESS BY COL. GIBBON The portion of the- Twentioth Infan.try Reinforcements which will parade in Wellington to-morrow, was addrcsswl by the Chief of Staff, Colonel C. if. Gibbon, at Trentham yesterday. Colonel Gibbon said that lib was very voll satisfied with tho result of the march of tho Twentieth over tho hill and tho outpost work engaged in en route was, on tho whole, fairly good. : Tlio musketry of tho four companies was abovo tho average, and that of (J Company was very good indeed. ''But I don't want to speak to you about what you havo done. 1 want to speak to you about your discipline. Wo aro out to beat the Germans, and if we can't'beat them with discipline, wo caii't beat them without it. Men's lives dopond on tho disciplino of a I'orco. In tho kind of fighting that is going on just now tbere must he a lot of give and take. Wo must be prepared to retreat, as well as advance. If wo rotroat without discipline there would bo confusion and disorder; and a rout means massacre. "Our troops have won a high reputation- at tho front. This has not been made up by Press correspondents for readers in this country. It has been published in Orders in franco, and the New Zealanders aro as good os any there. There are about 4,000,COO soldiers in France—several times the population of this Dominion. single division is a very small body. It has to do extremely well'to'attract attention, and the Now Zealand troops Lave dono that." Colonel Gibbon urged the men to sea that tho good name of • Now Zealand did not fall -through any aot of tlieirs, especially at poVts of call! He did not know how any man could explain to his relatives now ho camo to bo returned for missing his passage because lie stopped to havo a drink, and to bo court-martialled, as all such would certainly be'court-martialled. "The only way is to stick together and play thogame, ancl do all you can for tbe credit of New Zealand," said Colonel Gibbon, "and I wish you allgood luck and a good voyage." . '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2946, 5 December 1916, Page 7
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367"PLAY THE GAME" Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2946, 5 December 1916, Page 7
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