GENERAL ALLENBY.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 October 1918, Page 2

GENERAL ALLENBY.

“A fine soldier and a fine man,” >. •was the manner in which General Allenby was described by an officer who arrived back in Christchurch from Egypt. The officer went on to speak of General Allenby in highly eulogistic terms, laying particular stress upon the way in which he fraternised with the men and interested himseir in their needs. “He takes every risk,” the officer added, “and when there nsomething doing he does not direct affairs from behind the lines. He is away up with the men in the verfront line of all. English officers are not always idolised by colonial troops, hut General Allenby is, and he, in his turn, has nothing but praise for the Australian and New Zealand troops. He has an Australian for his A.D.C., and he has stated more than once that the New Zealand Brigade are the best troops under his command.”