CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 January 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

1 sr.! iii . -•clsc;\ -ciivi'iflHt ' [I'ER TBESS ASSOCIATION.] STEAMEII SUPPOSED LOST. London, Jan. -6. The est. African liner Appain wiMi J*-> ■ passengers. is believed, to have been lost. A battered iiteiioal has been picked up oft iladieia. Danes in British Army t in.ii i im; j;\ GALLiPOi/l. "JLeie are several hundreds ji Danes iigliiTitji lor Biitam in Galiipoli, said Captain Perey Hansen, V.C., • recently to a London "Daily -Mail" reporter. "Deiinuuk i.s u lioie-Ttearteii-l v . with Britain in tins war; J do not know any two countries between whom the ties oi ieilou leeliny, aru st ronger. "Great numbers ot Danes who had emigrated; to Australia joined the Australian forces directly hostilities began. One of the officers ill my battalion, the tith Lincolns, who suffered so badly in the attempt to hold the Green Knoll after the landing at Snvla Bay. was a Dane. 1 do not know what happened to him; I fear he was hit,"

It is not strictly correct to say that Captain Hansen is a .Dane. The Victorian Cross can only be awarded to British subjects: but both his parents were. Danes. 'I'll >y titled in London nearly a quarter of a century ago and became naturalUed. Captain Hanson was born in London and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. "I can imagine nothing more splendid than being a British soldier, although I am proud ol the Danish bloodi that is in me. the more so as Denmark is all for Britain. One of the consular officials told me that w,hen the war started constant streams j fit' Danes went up to ask if they conn Id .pun the British Army."