ALARMING STORIES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 141, 17 June 1916, Page 6

ALARMING STORIES

WARNING BY AUTHORITIES A special issue of the Common wealth Gazette lias been published warning Aus traliaus against wild-eat stories. The full story published on May 16, in London, states that it again becomes necessary to warn Australians against believing all the stories which will no doubt be telegraphed to Australia about the lighting in which Anzac troops have been engaged. Just as reports from Athens of Gallipoli events never in any instance had the least foundation of fact, so the ordinary current gossip of London is entirely cl void of truth. It is quite contrary to facts that Anzacs have been put into a difficult part the line. Indeed, so far there have been no gas attacks and little liveliness compared either with GplHpoli or many parts of the British front. Anzac troops arc placed in rather a false position by these absurd reports, and resent them because the rest of the Army at the front knows perfectly well that Australians have had no lighting of a sort really to test their mettle in France. The only incidents have been a small German raid on trenches, when the Australian infantry behaved as well as any infantry could, and a tree-chon-ping competition, in which the Maoris beat the French by four minutes. “Anzacs do not want to claim any honour yet, excepting that of doing ordinary honest duty,” concludes, the report