AUSTRALIANS MARCH THROUGH NEW YORK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 249, 9 July 1918, Page 4

AUSTRALIANS MARCH THROUGH NEW YORK

• AMERICA'S IMPRESSIONS. Five hundred longMcgged,, broad-shoul-dered Australian soldier la'ds in khaki, with jnliuty slouch hats on their heads, marching "with a long, easy, rolling swing, came swinging up Broadway from the Battery to City Hall Park (says the New York "Times" of May 3). At. first glance they might haTO been mistaken for a regiment from Wyoming or Arizona, or somewhere in tho southwest—they had tho Anglo-Saxon frontiersmen written upon them—hut at second glance thorp were some differences. Their faces looked rounder and ruddier, and their heads were set closer down on their shoulders, in more British fashion, than those of tho lean-jawed, lanky Westerners, and their uniforms wore of a different cut from the American, with' pleats and rolling collars on their blouses, and thoir hats were different from tho high-crnwned Stetson of tho doughboy, with a crown like a low, truncated cone, and the brim looped up on one side and fastened with' a gnnmetal badge. Hero and there among •the ranks too, was a man who walked or swung one arm with a stiffness, and wore the look Hint New York is beginning to recognise -the look that comes from months or years of unceasing, determined strugglo with the Germans, for. many of them were the. "Anzacs," who had gone through the long agony cf Gallipoh, or had been in that last terrible charge of the Battle of the Sommo, when tho Australians fought their way us the muddy, '}.moouai.n! i \V op Bring 30 sedois and who had been shot down ni the field, and were now, after being invalided home once more on their way to tho front. , , . , Tho Australians marched in columns of fours, without either rifles or equipment, and if here and a youngster craned his neck to look with wondering eye? at the loftv peaks of Mount Woolwnrth and Mount Singer, the officers did not rebuko him. Before starting up from Battery Park they had. been formed up by tlreir officers, under command of Colonel W. K. Fclher, D.5.0., and hnd nxchanired greetings not only with the Ninth Coast Artillery, representing Uncle Sam, but also with a squad of the French "Blue Devils," who had como down to greet them.