THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915. FOR THE EMPIRE'S SAKE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 85, 20 September 1915, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times

PUBLISHED MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1915. FOR THE EMPIRE'S SAKE.

The Official Organ of : The Franklin County Council. The Pukekohe Borough Council. The Tuakau Town Board. The Karaka Road. Board. The Pokeno Road Board. The Wairoa Road Board. The Papakura Towu Board. The Waikato River Board. The Mercer Town Board. Etc., etc.

• "We not fling extenuate, nor fe.t down auoht in malice."

Day by day lists ot casualties sustained at the Gallipoli operations come to hand. They form a grim story of appalling odds, a nightmare Btory of obstacles that have hitherto only existed in nightmare visions of modern warfare, a glorious story of ineffable human valour that makes all our veins tingle and our eyes moisten as we Karl it. It is open knowledge now that (he Dardanelles expedition is an immense war in itself, a greater and more perilous enterprise—barring the super-combat with Germany itself—than any the British people have ever embarked upon. It is an enterprise that will be shone upon by immeasurable results of victory, or clouded by no less immeasurable results ot defeat. There is no half way. There can be no retirement and no stale-mate. Under infinite difficulties, and against infinite odds, our forces were landed on tne beaches of that fateful "broken boot" peninsula; and it is well to face now the knowledge that und r no circumstances could they now be extricated. The sharp alternatives are either victory, Constantinople, and a thundering blow for the Allied cause, or defeat, surrender of the whole remnant of the expedition to Turkey, and the certain ultimate fall, in that eventuality, of the whole Allied cause, in Poland, in Flanders and France, and in Italy. If we losj the Dardanelles we lose altogether. More and more men are wanted, and it will ill-become the young men ot New Zealand if, physically fit, they neglect to respond to the Empire's call. Many have already proved their patriotism, but others, and of a considerable number, are still holding aloof.