“NOT IN VAIN.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1917, 19 December 1918, Page 2

“NOT IN VAIN.”

THE UA LLi PULI CA MPAICN. NOTABLE TRIBUTES TO ANZACS. London, Dee. 17. Sir .lames Mills presided at a luncheon given by the Australian andNew Zealand Clubs to General Birdwood and Air Winston Churchill. General Birdwood, responding lo a (oast, said the future would do full justice to the Mediterranean expidiLion. Although the Dardanelle.n campaign was unsuccessful, it accomplished the annihilation of the Howe]- of the Turki.-h Army. No name was higher in the world limn the Australian ami New Zealand soldiers, while in I lie whole army there was not any belter organised <>r ofliciont division than the New Zealanders. Mr Winston Churchill said a mournful splendour played about the great operation on Gallipoli. It was launched without universal AD lied help. There were scarcely any graves on the whole of the battlefields upon which could better be written the words “Not in vain” than on those Anzae graves on Gallipoli. General Sir Jan Hamilton had set (hem a task which perhaps no Ifumau being could have achieved with I lie remnants left after the needs of France hud been mot. It had now become the duty of the statesmen to preserve (he unity of the Empire and to carry the Imperial organisation a step forward. They must expect the oversea Empire (o desire (Closer touch in the. march of events confronting them in the future.