GALLIPOLI DAY DINNER

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1929, Page 5

GALLIPOLI DAY DINNER

SIR I. HAMILTON’S COMMENT.

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LONDON, April 25. Sir lan Hamilton, proposing the toast of the Twenty-ninth Division at the Gallipoli Day dinner, said he hoped the evidence taken by the Dardanelles Commission would soon he published. “Only very slowly is the complete story of Gallipoli escaping the censor’s dutches. However, the first volume of the official history was published today. The hooks are well entouraged, and thereby we may hope evidence before the. Commission may lie allowed to see the light. The public imagine they have seen evidence, because they have read the Commission’s report. They haven’t. It gives us priceless information of a character unobtainable elsewhere.” Sir lan Hamilton contrasted dining *amid all the refinements of civilisation beside the survivors of the incomparable Twenty-ninth Division, with the circumstances of the landing. He cited desperate moments of his long military career and said, nevertheless, the landing stood alone as something quite, different. 'The date of the 24th April and the Twenty-ninth Division not only defy but thrive upon time’s passage. This is all the stranger because from the outset, forces, political and otherwise, were interested in keeping Hie landing in the shadow, while they turned the limelight 'from gallantry on to skill and from attack on to evasion from April 25th, 1915, to January Kith, 1916.