CONAN DOYLE'S EULOGY.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1919, Page 3

CONAN DOYLE'S EULOGY.

OF AUSTRALIANS AND NEW ZEALANDERS.

A REPRESENTATIVE MOTION

iAustralian N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received This Day at 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, January 27

At the Australians and New Zealand luncheon, Sir Conan Doyle delivered a glowing panegyric on the great deeds of,the Australians and Now Zealanders in the war. He said the Australians had never been in a great- disaster, but twice had saved the situation, when the position was most desperate at Amiens and Halbrouck. 'No division had finer records than the New Zealanders. It was in the line under fire from the time is came to the assistance of the sth Army in March, till the Armistice was signed. Th e New Zealanders commenced to advance on the 21st August, and never ceased to go forward, fighting all the time till the 11th November. Now we have got Germany down, we ought- to pull her I teeth, and her claws. If we don’t, there is sure to be another war. To obviate this, one of the strongest terms in the Peace Treaty should be that the territory west of the Rhine be made a separate unit, from which Germany should not be allowed fo rai§e conscripts, nor should any German troops be allowed west of the Rhine. Then the' French people would he able ito sleep at nights. The German Fleet should be taken in procession to blue water, the valves opened and the ship s sunk. This would save petty squabbling among tile Allies as to wlio should have them. That would be real “Dor Tag.” Colonel Sir James Barrett moved: “That this representative meeting of Australians expresses its appreciation of Mr Hughes attitude in voicing at the Peace Conference, Australian opinion regarding the future of the Pacific islands; that- it is essential the former enemy possessions captured by Australian forces shall for the future safety of the Commonwealth and Dominion be placed effectively wTtliin their control, if necessary under a mandate from the League of Nations."

Tlie motion was carried unanimously