REMEMBER ANZAC DAY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3062, 25 April 1917, Page 4

REMEMBER ANZAC DAY

It is not likely that any events in this terrible war will stir the memory of New Zcalandcrs with the deep and lasting emotion, .the high pride, and the profound sorrow, that will always be associated with the name Anzac. Our gallant citizen soldiers have distinguished themselves in France and Egypt with the same splendid courage and heroic endurance that made the name Anzac famous throughout the world; they have shown the same invincible spirit on other battlefields than the rugged and bloody heights of Gallipoli; they will, we may bo certain, ere this war ends, add further lustre to the fame which they have already won for themselves and their country. It is fitting, therefore, that now and in the years to follow, when Anzac Day with its thrilling memories comes round, we should bear .in grateful remembrance not only our heroes of Gallipoli, but our heroes who risked their lives for us and for the liberty of the world inother fields of action. Anzac Day is the anniversary of the first stern test to which our citizen soldiers were subjected, and from which they emerged with imperishable glory; but it is a day on which we do honour'also to tho brave, men who have so nobly followed the exalted example set them by tho comrades who went before. To-day there will be memorial, services throughout New Zealand for the gallant men who lie at rest across the. ocean, their duty to their kindred' and their country faithfully done. 1 To many, very many, it will be a day of sadness, relieved only by the glorious memory which husbands, sons, and brothers have handed down as a stimulus and incentive to future generations. In honouring our noble dead, and tho men who have emerged safely from the ordeal of war, we should be stirred to emulate tho example they hayo set us., All cannot follow in their footsteps, but all can, each in his or her particular way, strive to play their part in a struggle on the outcome of which will depend the liberty and happiness not only of every man, woman, and child in this Dominion, but of the whole world. We owe it not only to tho living but to the men "who have given up life itself in this' great cause.