Tin.; New South Wales Kdu.ation Department Jiiin issued a booklet containing tlui cabled reports ot' the landing of the Australian troops ;it the Dardanelles, written by Air. Ashmead Uartlett iiml Captain, i>can. Tin.' J'ook is illustrated. aihL contains an excellent portrait of i lie late (leneral photographs o! the Ouceu Klijwbcth ami her ;:uus the AK! and the Ah_, a birds-eye view of <iallipu[i and maps ol" the <iallipoli 'lVmnsula, and' of Turkey in Europe. The book is intended for the use of ilie -eiiioj' piipiU of schools. and after read jn class will hci-onie (he property of the individual pupils as a memento of tile gallant action of the Australians. it is intended to issue further booklets of MiniUir character as the occasion warrants. Various correspondents have been sending the London Spectator their ■iii'strhand reeoiiections ol bull-? and blunders. liere are a. few:- -"Many yeisv-. U&) I heard (lie following notice read out in a Catholic Church in loii.lv!and; 'There will be a procession next afternoon, in the ground of the .Monastery, but if it rains in the afternoon the 'prot:es>ion will take place in the morning.' Amount mixed, metaj,i).ri*s the niosj 1 think 1 have c\cr heard was the statement of si town councillor, in a 'Hampshire town, voars airo, during a discussion on projected expenditure on town improveUieiit. 'Cent-lemon.' he said, 'We will ha\e nothing to do with it; it in just t)n> thin end of a. white elephant/" " A ii'L r uishcd leader ol the I Istcr Part;.. writMiu' to me some time back, said; / ■ ivfore the Home llule Hill is enforced, A-|uith will have to lie over many i dead 'bodies —his own included.'' t think 1 this Irish hull would lake, a prize m anv show."
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1915, Page 7
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