FROM SIR JOSEPH WARD
Christmas greetings have_ been sent to the. troops by Sir Joseph Waid:— New Zealand is justly proud of the achievements of her gallant sous. You boys who are thousands of miles away from home aiid loved ones have upheld the best traditions of your race. As •1 fighting force you have proved yourselves equal to the best_ soldiers of the world. Your achievements at Gallipoli, on the Sommo, in the Holy Land, and in other theatres of this great war will . stand out in. history as the record of bold and fearless men, who have been reared in a free and democratic country. New Zealand mourns the loss of those who have gone down in this great fight for civilisation, but I am sure you all feel as I do that it were better to die upon a foreign n'rand than come under the yoke c<f an inhuman and unscrupulous foe. Good luck to you all. May your Christmaß be as bright as circumstances permit, and may tho New Year he the dawn of a better day for the whole world. Let ub hope that in 1018 tho joy bells will ring out for a lasting peace with honour, and that the death knell will sound over tho corpse of Prussian militarism. (Signed) J. G. WARD. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND
The following message, received fioin the General Officer Commanding the New Zealand troops in England (Brigadier-General G. S. Richardson), has been published in Camp Orders: ■ ''From New Zealand troops in England to our comrades in New ' Zealand, Christmas greetings on this _ fourth, and, we hope, the last, Christmas of the war. wo all hope to join you before next Christmas, after a victorious termination of campaign. Wo tbink not only of you and our comrades in the field, but of our late comrades, the real heroes of the war, who hfive laid down their lives for us and our glorious Empire, and of their bereaved relatives who aro burying thoir sorrow ana shouloering their burdens without murmuring becauso of the knowledge that their loved ones died for a righteous cause."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 77, 24 December 1917, Page 4
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354FROM SIR JOSEPH WARD Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 77, 24 December 1917, Page 4
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