ANZACS AT GALLIPOLI

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 204, 17 November 1927, Page 11

ANZACS AT GALLIPOLI

BRITISH OFFICIAL RECORD RYRIE SATISFIED By Cable.—Press Association Copyright. LONDON, Tuesday. The High Commissioner for Australia, Sir Granville Ryrie, had an interview with General Aspinall, who was chief general staff officer at the evacuation of Gallipoli. They discussed the British official history of the landing. Subsequently Sir Granville said he had read the whole of the chapter relating to the landing, and also the correspondence which passed between General Aspinall and Mr. C. E. W. Bean, the Australian war correspondent, as well as a letter from New Zealand Defence Department. He had come to the conclusion that the references to the Australians, on the whole, were fairly accurate. General Aspinall had revised portions of it. He had also read the following letter from Mr. Bean: “I did not arrive at Gallipoli until a month after the landing, but reliable information satisfied me that the agitation caused in Australia is due to a mistaken idea of what General Aspinall intended to publish. Australian returned soldiers are not likely to be dissatisfied when .they read the record.”;—-A. and N.Z. j