SHACKLETON'S APPEAL,
To iho Men of Australia. When Sir Ernest Sbackleton w»3 ia Sydney last week be was invited to address a recruiting meeting in Mirtin Place, outside the Ohief Pust Office. He spoke to soma eight or ten thousand people in the opeu air, and made a stirrmg appeal to the met. of Australia to come forward and take tbeir places in the ranks of the fighting forces of the Empire. Subsequently ,• b 0 - was asked by the R.jcinuiag • Branch to give a message that be distributed throughout the Cotnmonwealth. His message was f»s follows: ‘X “ When I came out from the Siutb,
after long days of struggle and strife in stark Polar solitudes, I had ray first impresa’on of the war at Punta Arenas, A little British community lives there under a foreign fl »g* and 40 per cant of its men had gone to the front, not because they had to go or evan because they had been asked to go, but because they knew their country had need of them. “ Hoi’e in Australia the call to service sounds loud and cl\ur. “ I speak to you men a? one who ha? carried the King’s fLg in the white - warfare of the Antarctic: and who is going now to serve in the red warfare of Europe. I say to you that this call means more than duty, more than sacrifice, more than glory; it in the supreme opportunity offered every man of our rune to justify bimseif before his own goal. “ Love of ease, love of money, love of wemaa, love of life ill these ere email things in the scale against your own mauhood. “ The blood that has been shed oa : the burning bills of Gallipoli and the sodden fields of Fianders call to you. i a i i ... • . .it
” roiitma, prejudice?, pe ty perI . aonal interests are nothing, Fight because you have the hearts of men, aud because, if you fail, you will know yourselves in your own inner conscience to be 'or ever shamed. “ Aud to the woman of Auslralia I would say just t bin—be as ths women of Sparta, who said to husbands, brothers, aud fathers : “ Coma back victorious or on your shields ! ”
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1917, Page 3
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