Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 33, 9 June 1915, Page 8

Australia

A DEMOCRATIC ARMY. TALES FROM EGYPT. MINDING THE CHICKENS. United Pesm Association. '.Received 10.45 a.m.) Sydney, June 9. Mr Harry Guillett, the official Australian correspondent' at the British front, emphasises ~ie fact that the youth of the British Army Flanders on a genera] average is ten years younger that that of the South African war. This is a day of thin leaders , and there are no fat British Generals at the Front. The Array is a delightful democracy; a happy brotherhood. The spirits of all from headquarters to the rank and file are so high that the magnitude of the horror of war is virtually felt less at the Front than in England. The "Herald's special correspondent in Egypt says he heard an Imperial officer, recently returned from Flanders, pay high tributes to the Australasians by calling the Third Australian Infantry Brigade the finest in the whole of the Allied armies. They bore the brunt of the first attacks, and their impetuous, and irresistible bayonet charges will bear rich fruit, for the Turks will never again withstand a bayonet charge by the Australians.

The wounded pay affectionate tribute to the efficiency of "Big Lizzie" as they call the Queen Elizabeth. One said: "While we were landing Lizzie glided up and down like an old hen watching over her chickens. Turkish destroyers tried to cut in. but when Lizzie got a move on they skedaddled. One was a bit slow and forgot that Big Lizzie could hit at ten miles. The consequence was a shell landed amidships on board the Turk, and it was "Good-night Nurse" for the Moslems."