400 ANZACS IN NEW YORK.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1918, Page 3

400 ANZACS IN NEW YORK.

AIDING LIBERTY LOAN. NEW YORK, May 2. Tho “Coo-o-o-o-ee!” of far-off Australia intermingled to-day in the streets of New York with the sharp “Hurrahs 1” of the American and French war heroes who are here aiding the Liberty Loan campaign. From the throats of 400 “Auzacs”— men from Australia and New Zealand —the canyons of lower Broadway and the wider thoroughfare of Fifth Avenue reverberated with the peculiar cheering of the Australians and an answering “Coo-00-o-o-eo” of women from their homelands who liked tho sidewalks. Most of the women wore mourning. Few men from Australia were in the throngs, and these were far above the military age. The black drosses of tho women told the reason. Like the visit of the French “Blue Devils,” the coining of the “Auzacs” was unannounced. But like the Frenchmen and tho Americans from Pershing’s forces,, who are aiding in Liberty Loan rallies, all of them are heroes. They all saw service on theGallipolr Peninsula against tho Turk, and after Ithe withdrawal of the Allied forces from that theatre faced the Germans on the Western Front in France.

j It is for only a few days that these j big, rangy men. most of them from i the sheep runs" and farming country, ! with their campaign hats cocked on ' the sides of their heads, and bearing ' the “rising sun” insignia of tho twin ; Commonwealths, will be seen on the ; streets of New York, urging delinquents to subscribe to the Liberty Loan. Having recovered from wounds they.are : again on their way—with more than ■ two-thirds of their journey ended—to . the battlefields of Europe, to take up i arms against the Teutonic Allies. ; On the march up town the “Auzacs” ! were received at the City Hall by ■Mayor Hylan. Bands played tlio B ; tish and Allied National Anthems. Renri Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, and

guard of honour received the visitors at the Battery- when they landed. Their trip across the Pacific was by way of the Panama Canal, and the. men had been on the ocean for 45 days. After the parade the men attended n luncheon in their honour at an uptown restaurant. Later they went sight seeing. Autombiles were placed at thendisposal and theatres threw open their dors to them. Attentions of every kind were showered upon them. To-morrow the stalwart sons of Canada’s sister Dominion will assemble at the British-Cauadian Recruiting Mission in 42nd street, where they, together with Harry Lauder and his company, and a United States Marine band, will participate in a monster recruiting rally, after which they will break up into parties of five and tour the city on behalf of the Liberty Loan.