GALLIPOLI ECHOES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 339, 26 April 1928, Page 9

GALLIPOLI ECHOES

PRICE OF EVACUATION SIR lAN HAMILTON’S VIEWS (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian P.A.—United Service) LONDON .Thursday. General Sir lan Hamilton addressed the survivors of the 29th Division in London. He said that never since the original landing was Gallipoli so much in evidence. Some mud had been stirred up, but that was characteristic of every live idea which fought its way steadily to the truth. The late Mr. Bonar Law had sold the River Clyde to the Spaniards for £7,000; so anxious had he been to see the last of her. They were told the evacuation of Gallipoli had saved ‘housands of lives, but the public were now getting an inkling that by the evacuation they had lost hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives.

The joint celebration of Anzac Day by Australians and New Zealanders in London was most successful. Wreaths were laid on the Cenotaph by Sir Granville Ryrie and Sir James Parr, High Commissioners for Australia and New Zealand, and others. Sir Granville addressed ex-soldiers at Australia House. A memorial service at St. Clement Danes was crowded. A wreath was laid on the war shrine. IMPRESSIVE SCENES AUSTRALIAN OBSERVANCE SYDNEY, Thursday. The Anzac Day commemoration commenced at 4.30 a.m. yesterday, the hour of the historic landing on Gallipoli. Representatives of the associated Returned Soldiers’ Clubs placed wreaths on the Cenotaph. Later In the day more than 30,000 ex-soldiers in mufti, headed by motorcar loads of blinded and limbless men, marched from Government House through the city streets, which were lined by great crowds of people, to the Domain. There, in the presence of 120,000 people, the chief Anzac Day memorial service was held. This was one of the most impressive services held in Sydney. At Melbourne 27,000 troops, led by General Sir John Monash, marched through the city, and the Governor, Lord Somers, took the salute at the temporary Cenotaph on the steps of Parliament House. At Canberra services were held In the Albert Hall and were attended by 8,000 people, including the GovernorGeneral, Lord Stonehaven, the Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, and many Federal Ministers. Ceremonies were also held throughout all the States and were largely attended.