NEW ZEALAND MEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 15 June 1915, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND MEWS.

H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND A NEW COMMANDERCAPTAIN HALSEY MOVED ON. WELLINGTON, Monday. The following cable has been received by the Prime Minister from the High Commisisoner yesterday: “The Admiralty reports that Captain John F. E. Green has been appointed Commander of the K.M.S. New Zealand in place of Captain Halsey, who has been selected for another appointment.” ' WORDS or WARNING AND CHEER. FROM SIR lAN HAMILTON. AN HISTORIC NOTE. AUCKLAND, June 14. A warning of the difficulties confronting them and a final exhortation to the forces under his command, were contained in a special order issued by Sir lan llamlton, commanding the Mediterranean expeditionary force, on April 1, -four days before the landing on Gallipoli Peninsula. r - ; A copy of the note was received in i Auckland by to-day V mail. Its text Is as follows: "Soldiers of Franco and of the King.—Before us lies an adventure unprecedented in modern war. Together with our comrades of the fleet we are about to force a landing upon an open beach in the face of positions which have been vaunted by our enemies as impregnable. The landing will be made good by the help of God and the Navy. The positions will be stormed and the war brought one. step) nearer to a glorious close. Remember, said Lord Kitchener when bidding adieu to your commander, remember, once you sot foot upon the Gallipoli Peninsula, you must fight the thing through to a finish. The whole world will be watching our progress. Let us prove ourselves worthy of the great feat of arms entrusted to us. —lan Hamil-t-on., General.” WOUNDED RETURNING TO NEW ZEALAND. TRANSPORT ON THE WAY. WELLINGTON, Jun )4. The. Minister for Defence informed a pressman this afternoon that some of the men wounded in the early stages of the Dardanelles fighting were returning to the Dominion by a transport which is now on the way to this country. The men were suffering from wounds of a character likely to incapacitate them from service for some time at least. Soldiers likely to be ready to return to the fight within a reasonable time had gone o the hospitals nearer the scone of the fighting. Hospital accommodation would bo available for the returned wounded, added the Minister, but he assumed that most of them -would prefer to go to their own homos. If they were sufficiently recovered to be able ta do so, they would want to bo with their own relatives.