HOMEWARD BOUND.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3337, 15 November 1919, Page 5

HOMEWARD BOUND.

LAST OF THE AUSTRALIANS. LONDON, Nov. 12. Generals Birdwood, Monash, ‘MC-. Glynn, and Wisdom, together with 250 other Australian officers and men, with many dependants, are sailing for Australia aboard the Orrnonde on Satnurday. * A J -The Australian Press Association interviewed Sir John Monash, who said: “I am jolly glad ‘to find myself on the eve of departure. I -have been ‘away from home five years, but the last nine months were much more gstrenuous than the four years Of W3l‘- ' Demobilisation proved a stupendous task. It'would be difficult enough in peace time, with th ehelp of a trained Staff, to transport a. city of 200.000 People to the Antipodes in nine months. We-succeeded in completing . the bulk of the embarkation in eight months. In enlisting -the sympathy, of the men I followed the principle of conduct which animated me throughout the war, based onexperience, "If ‘you give the Australian a fair deal he “gill do.- anything. The confidence of me? and Omcers W 33 the bedrock of, o the success of the Australians in war.‘ 1 - -One is almost tempted to think that-,{ as against the terrible losses Austm]ia, had suffered there are Very subsmnml ibenefits in the moral uplift ‘and vastl educational experiences gained by the’ Young mf3n,of Austra.lia.’r‘ 1