GLORY OF THE ANZACS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 819, 13 November 1929, Page 9

GLORY OF THE ANZACS

men spurred by lust FOR ADVENTURE GREAT DEEDS RECALLED ‘ ''' * **• Telegraph— Copyrightj LONDON, Tuesday. Ai the Armistice Day dinner at the Authors’ Club, General Sir Tom Bridges, who was Governor of South Australia spoke of a typical Anzac Ha. , which he described us Australia’s -d New Zealand’s real war celebra General Bridges expressed the opinion that the prime error made by »n<' Germans before the war was misjudging the psychology of the Empire, i Here would have been no war if the Germans had had a prevision of what the Australians and New Zealanders i nza<: Cove, or of that wonderful August 8, which was a really black da\ lor Germany when the Australians made a hole 12 miles deep in the German line—a feat unknown in the war up to that time. If he had to say why the Dominions had rallied to the Mother Country, he would be inclined to think the real explanation was that there was an immense number of men overseas full oi the lust of adventure. The Great \\ ai was an adventure for the men from the Dominions, similar to the colonisation efforts of their forebears. l he general said he had met many Australians who had told him they enjoyed the war. One man whose wounds run into double figures said the war provided the jolliest four years of his life. Those men were very different from the gloomy fellows round in the majority of latter-dav war novels.