The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. TUESDAY APRIL 24, 1917 ANZAC DAY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 269, 24 April 1917, Page 2

The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

TUESDAY APRIL 24, 1917 ANZAC DAY.

" We nothing extenuate, nor net down auoht in malice,"

"Falter not! Take these words as an dine;]: Ye shall quaff with me Victory's wine. Willi your feet "ii tin- necks ul the foeinell, liravo Dnuuliti i- i>l' mine ' Am L .-it last, when ihe epilogue's When v.,- '.'.'illi«'i' tin- fruit with llie l|(i\v*r.-, And the pride o| (lie (yrani is hroketi. N'n! mine lie the L'lory, lull < ll I'S " l"i. in ■ 1».-.h-jlii.-i ■ ~)' Min,. " \\ 111 'I .1 \ IHIIIO- |Ml|||||)||t|i|\ |i|;,. "11l- |i ill es lur a hlolilcill iii il.s innirli lmv:ml> hiiTolv iiialcrial |ihiM.nil\. :.!mI looks liai k. n Inn I'm unc dav i<i Ihe war. ii|hiii smiie \ shiki.'lU' episode in ils raie.-r. il [ ' uliilin ill es |(> ieali-e, il al liisl j hiii dimly, Ihal ii is l ic'vinni n<>- \ lo li;i..- ii'liiM.m nf ils own. I'nr ii«»l liii*-r lu'l|i> lu fix clearly j i ii I he |;ii|iulai mind some sa liciil la nilinai k of a c< iinlry'.- cln mi ides i i"'ii i lie com nil moral ion ol if- anniversary ; am! I lie aiini\'ei sai \' ol 10-lnol |(I>V, fl:il|lr||| ;,-. ii [< wifli ilin ill jflt'il oinolions ol «'i ief and lilidt'. in r-! Da llirally tfi'f-ll [iV I lie i liicrhcsl i.I-.mt ill Ihe' heart- o! all loval New Zealaiule.s. |) llttII |„o !■ i-i; line of <reiiei;dion- llial are 1.1 folio*' llii' iiiimiioiv id' Alizac Day. when we fiisl eat nod full eiti:'"llsl'']) ii! (hi- in : o ||l v Knipjvc of ni;r-. : nd o-iiim-d I'm onrdves for- ; ever a share in l]|e |i)-ivil' oes and : llial sudi oilr/on- j <diili cnlnils. will act n« a 'ran and j a:i inspiration to all flint are wisesf | and worlliiosl anion"' our de-eeml- . ants; and so long as we of tbe•

Knglish race honour and revere noli],' deeds ;ii»l brave men Anzac Day will not l»e forgotten. That in the Gallipoli campaign we celebrate a failure and nol a success we admit, but it was one of those defeats thai, like Thermopylae and Corunna, are more glorious than most, victories. The future historian will probably see little to commend in it, either from (he political ov the strategical point of view, but as a monument to the magnificent courage and tenacity of our soldiers he will find it difficult lo point to a parallel. Conceived by the vainest, most erratic, and most self-willed politician of modem times, and forced upon his reluctant colleagues in the face of disapproving expert opinion, it was probably foredoomed to failure from its genesis. Entrusted then lo a leader whose chief claim to high military command lay in the fact that at Tlaldarie's behest he had written a book to prove liow unnecessary it was for Britain to take Lord Roberts' advice and train her sons to arms, the wonder is not that" the enterprise failed, but that it endured so long in the face of a fore-warn-ed enemy, most difficult country, adverse climatic conditions, and a scarcity of food and water sufficient of itself to mar the success of the undertaking. Yet so magnificently was the impossible attempted that in days to come Churchill's blunder will be ranked with that other famous blunder which sent 000 Lancers and Hussars on their Hell-ride through the Balaklava valley. Before the war we. were but a sort of fringe tacked loosely upon (lie skirl of Empire, now we are intimately and inextricably woven into the fabric of the garment, itself. We have the proud consciousness that through thirty months of storm and stress New Zealand's heart has throbbed beat for beat with England's, and England knows and feels it too, and her pride in it is no less than our own. Our men have fought ami died side by side with those of the glorious 20th Division, and. though we who stay at home may scarcely fully realise it, there is no freemasonry so binding, no tie so enduring as, the memory of privations and dangers shared in generous comradeship.

" I thoueht. of many n hnrd-fonprht field Whore Bertram's hroasf was Phillip's shield."

For si generation lo come Hint sentiment will tinge the iuterfourse of New Zealand and the Motherland. In Hie catchy phraseology of our new Ally, we have '• made "food," and earned our place in the councils and the confidence of the Empire. Let us lake the advice of the poet whose linos head tin's page and " falter not," but strive and endure with ~11 that is in us till we can "gather the fruit with the flowers" in the happy knowledge that throughout Ihjs hellish eambat for liberty and (tie rights of civilisation wo have borne ourselves like men.