THE LAST OF THE MOUNTEDS.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 September 1919, Page 3

THE LAST OF THE MOUNTEDS.

An ll;'stolic »an(l sentimental interest. attaclles to the arrival in New Zealand waters of the tl'unspol*t. Ellenga, witll :1 draft. of mounted men from Egypt’. Tllosc. are .‘the last of the Mounted Rifles Brigade, and the story of New Zculand’s slxarc. in the Eggyptiaxl and Palestine campuligns is closed. Now that all our IHOllll‘l'Cd soldiers are home, we have come to the end of a great aclvcnturq. 'whicll began in failure and glory at (¥.:1l1ip0li, and ended in daz'/lling \‘ict<_)l'y in tflae “1.215 t Crllsa<:le,” which swept the Turk out of I.’a.les‘tine anal Syria, 'zlml brougllt him to his knees before ‘the Allies. Mr John Buchau says of ‘this Crusade that the (71-usada’-1-s “would startle the soul of hit. Louis .-ant] lizxymoml and Ric.llard of l'7n;rlall(] could they have beheld that uillPlZlHg‘ :n'my. For only :1 modest porfizrn of it w:'.s «lvawn from the W'ostol'n po(;1'»les. .~\l,r__-;m'ian and Imli-an Moslems, :\.x';lb r1'il;>;!s1x1oJ1. men of :1 tllousand <«1~.("d5 of Hlntlustan. .‘~\fri(':ln nogl'oo.s, and .Tcwi.~=ll bzxfmlicms. \\‘ol'o among the lil‘u~ruturs of the sléicwd land of’ Cln'i.<’r-(-ndonx.” But we believe that if C0011!‘-:10-l,ion <'nulC. lmvc: I'o-visitocl fhn scwne of his <i:lnn_‘»:xi;m.<, n0itl1:1' '.'\l'o.<l(-n1 nor Flllll, um: .l}~\\' \\‘oul<l, ll.::\‘e :Ippoal('cl ‘:::s:-p to his in:ag'§n:»ltion tlzun the fall, l":-.~‘(‘lOmlJ{‘4l l:‘C:lf:(271x-£11)’ ‘-.’r'l'om Scull):-<-rn l:‘ml.l:nS mll~:no\\'n ‘H: him aml f 0 his f'?:m‘._ 'l‘llv}' uroulrl lmvv lwoxx >‘Ol(ll(?I’S .‘:‘.’l"v:" his l1s‘{1:"r. ’l‘l.~ns':> :\2s":l of Ours

Iyl:lf»'F‘<l L‘. '_'_?,":orl'<,-21.8 }’.~:n‘f in tho .<nl:z.<lling cf‘ '.l‘*.lll~:c-y, .: ml tllm7l' nznno will l‘\’(?l' he :'n.v.:.:ouvT:_lh(l. witll (mo of tlw most brilliant cauL}~al'gn.< in llisto:'y. We have Szlitl more t'lm‘n CBC” l')(‘fCl‘(*, and we repczlt if to-day um the :1r1‘iv:11 of the Ell<~n_L'.:l’~‘ m-I‘-n. ‘rlmf the Moun/‘rr'd Erigacle lms nnvmf l1:z{.l fmrn. the public the Cre«lit 1-hat: was its due. The a\'ol‘ag(.‘ miml (=nul=«l nor vange equally over the wlmlv vast pnnomnxa of strife, so to most people in New Zealand the War nwzml‘ tlnc \'\'u.~'fm'rl front, ftlld Palestine was nmroly 5». “si<lo—sllo=w.” But now ‘rlxz-.l’ it all ow-I'. flu‘ Paleslille campanigfn. im'll.nlin;,l‘ ifs (langors and hardslnips. should lw seen in its true per-,-]m=tiw,~_, and Hmre is no oxcuse for \\=il'hllol4lin;x from the mom who fought 3...] won tlmro with such ondurancé, dcvutinn. anfl tli.<linotiun the la\ll'olé to \\’lll('.ll (‘lwy um ('I!llll(‘(l.