GALLIPOLI HEROES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1932, Page 3

GALLIPOLI HEROES

SIR JAN HAMILTON’S OPINION HIGH PRAISE FOR ANZACS. I United Press Association B> c, Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON; May o; “Old Dardanellers! You have dom your glorious best and succeeded,” said General Sir lan Hamilton, addfes sing the Fife Gallipoli Club at St' Andrews. “When'many-’great and desperate battles on the Russian ant. Western Fronts are forgotten,’” -h< I went on, “y<)u will be remembered. I cannot find a parallel to the Gallipoli landings ,in military history. Though ten men fell, the next nevei I'aultered. • “While tin? 29th Division was landing in tin- South and the Frdnch wen doing gloriously at Kuin Kale, th< Amcacs were receiving their baptism i of fire to the north, and so bearing' themselves that the Old World recog nised the emergence from the Antipodes of a new factor of first-class importance. The clash of the Anza< fighting man in this exploit took Australian and New Zealand opinion by S'

onn; tlie Commonwealth and the Dominion have honoured the date by calling it Anssac Day. “England. Scotland, Ireland and Wales cannot afI'ord to let Gallipoli Day merge into An/.ac Day if only because the defeatists at our universities and elsewhere speak of our islands as worn out.”