PICTURES OF ANZAC

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2972, 9 January 1917, Page 3

PICTURES OF ANZAC

SAPPER MOORE-JONES'S COLLECTION. by a New Zealaiidonj and portraying places that no citizen of this country can think of without emotion and pride, tho Anzac sketches to he exhibited in tho Caledonian Chambers to-morrow afternoon should arouse no littlo interest iu the City of Wellington. The artist, Sapper Horaco MooreJones, enlisted in London at the beginning of tho war, and joined tho New Zealanders in Egypt- Proceeding to Gallipoli, ho took part in tho great landing, and on the Peninsula appears to havo attracted tho .ittention_ of his superiors by the excellence of his military sketches. Transferred to Headquarters, he there had opportunities of doing, at odd moments, work that today constitutes an invaluable record of'tho campaign. Tho sketches show, as no photographs could show, the almost insuperable topographical difficulties that confronted our men from the very commencement of their epic struggle. "It is," to quote a great London daily, "as faithful records of tho structure of tho land that the sapper's water-colour and pencil notes claim our attention. Wo see the famous Anzac Cove where the landing was effected; up on the heights he shows us Plugge> Plateau, . Walker's and Dead Man's Ridges, and tho Sphinx, with Sari Bair, the big prize, towering over all. Tho Sphinx accounted for many lives beforo its secret was discovered. High up on the perpendicular end of a ridge a huge piece of rock like a pillar stands, and between it and tho cliff is a cleft into which a. Turk had been lowered with a month's supply of ammunition and food. From this eyrie ho sniped and spied unseen, ami when the New Zealanders captured the ridgo tho Turk was found dead of numerous wounds, his comrades having fled without hoisting him from his hiding-place. Views of Shrapnel Gully, Bloody Angle, Scimitar Hill, Chunuk Bair, Suvla Bay, of tho Olive Grove from which tho Turks safely enfiladed tho Australian positions bolow Lono Pine Hill, Gaba Tepe, whose guns were never silenced, and distant glimpses of Achi Baba,- recall stirring, but, alas! unavailing battles, and arouso feelings of pride—and of regrot."

Sapper Moore-Jones enjoys the proud $jri,inction of having exhibited his sketches at Buckingham Palace, by Royal command. An honour scarcely less appreciated by him was the request of the Royal Institute of Great Britain to havo the skotches placed before it. To such implied commendation it is scarcely necessary. to add words. The exhibition will be opened under the patronage of His Excellency the Governor, and will continue for a few days in the Caledonian Chambers, opposito the Grand Hotel. Visitors will

tliero kavo an opportunity of hearing the sapper's own account of his pictures. . .