NEW ZEALANDERS AT CAPETOWN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3110, 14 June 1917, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS AT CAPETOWN

/ Sir,—la your issue of Friday last you published a copy of a letter received by the Acting-Prime Minister from the Mayor of Cape Town, who expressed tho pleasure of the citizens of that city in being able to entertain our soldiers lvho wero passing through there. To show that tho citizens of Cape town also think of the Xow Zealanders that will never return they held an Anzac memorial service in the Cathedral on Anazc Day, I.enclose cutting from tho Cape reporting the service, which, if you will kindly publish it, should help to further. console the relatives, of the departed heioea. Thanking you in anticipation, I am, etc., ■ i ... . HUIA. [Enclosure.] .ANZAC DAY. . Memorial Service. Yesterday morning a service wan held in St. George's. Cathedral, Capo Town, in memory of the Anzacs who foil two years ago in Gallipoli. The servico was conducted by the Very Rev. C. H. Bolt, Dean.of Cape Town, and by Bishop Gaul, who iead tho lesson, Other clergy officiating were the Bev. W. L. Heriord, the Ven. Archdeacon Tobias and tho Bev. H. Jackson.

In the absence of His Grace tho Archbishop, who is suffering from loss of voice, tho sermon was preached by Dean Bolt, who said that not very long ago wo had como to think that the ago of heroes was entirely passing away, but witihu the last two or three years a new calendar' was being written daily, the pages of which- .were being filled with heroic deeds of men from all parts of tho Empire. ,Thero wero three words which symbolised the thoughts in our minds. These words were—conflict, heroism, and immortality. These words to-day 6eemod hardly equal to their uses.' In place o£ conflict wo should like to coin a new word to express tho tornado of struggle which Was sweeping over almost every country of tho civilised world. It,was not only a conflict of physical energy, but ono against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wo wore fighting for a great ideal, and must steel our hearts for victol'.v. which we hoped woiild mean the abolishment of war—we wero makingwar to end war. As fo<r heroism, the 25th of April of two years ago now stood in tho Church Calendar, and would continue to 6tand. Anzac Day would bo remembered as long as tho British race was known, as the day on which Australian and New Zealand soldiers baptised with their blood tho shores of Gallipoli. Of its small population of 5,000,000,' Australia and given the magnificent auofa -.of Wn.OOA men, and out of 1.0f1f1.000 New Zealand had given 70,000. Their heroism would

ho remembered through all limo. In England, whoa first tho Dominions had sent their men, wo had thanked them, and the.il- reply had been: "Do not thank ua—it ia our war .is much at) yours." Thin was it war in which ovary truo man tried to take, his part, As for immortality, such deeds were always immortal, and when tho names of those had passed from remembrance, tho memory of their deeda would remain. Tho deeds of the bravo dead would remain as an inspiration to thoso who canie after; but the* noul of man is not satisfied with such immortality. Wo believed the heroin dead lived on and are now with Got), and that their deeds aro garnered m His great treasury to enrich Mis peace. Their Excellencies thi> Governor-Gen-eral and Visocuntess Buston were present, and so too wen, Brigadier-General Cavendish and his fitaC. Amongst others who attended were Mrs. Carter, fcnr Thomas Smarit, Sir Lewis and Lady Micholl, and Sir Jacobus Graafi. A toucttins reminder of tho occasion was to bo found in tho little band of rdck and wounded Anzacs, who had come in from hospital', most of whom _ bore obvioirs marks of.stress and suffer)np.